Well Monks, it's time for my first topic... I searched and did not find the answer - if you can direct me to an existing topic with the answer, I will be eternally grateful. With that said, here it goes.

I have a compiled C++ binary which initializes using files from the current working directory ".". I cannot change this, as it is a commercial product that I don't have the source for. What I'm trying to do is call this program from within Perl using a combination of chdir and backticks.

This works great from the command line. However, as a CGI, I'm getting an error that the initialization files can't be found. I've already checked permissions on all directories in the path, as well as on the files themselves - everything is in order there. I know the Perl script is in the proper working directory and that the program does indeed execute because I'm calling the binary application with a relative command, i.e. `./binary arg1 arg2`.

Any suggestions?? I'm in contact with their tech support staff but so far, no good.

In reply to Calling a C++ binary from Perl by kwaping

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