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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Something to add:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>If I change the first param to
something other than a directory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><u><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#7F0055'>if</span></u></b><u><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'> ( StartScilab(</span></u><u><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#2A00FF'>"/Program
Files/scilab-5.2.1/bin/foobar"</span></u><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>,</span></u><u><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#2A00FF'>"/Program
Files/scilab-5.2.1/etc/scilab.start"</span></u><u><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>,NULL) == FALSE )</span></u><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>cout << </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#2A00FF'>"Error
while calling StartScilab"</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Courier New";color:black'> << </span><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I get the error:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:black'>Error while calling StartScilab</span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:red'>StartScilab: Could not find the directory /Program
Files/scilab-5.2.1/bin/foobar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";
color:red'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>But I’m still not sure what’s
causing StartScilab to hang…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Matt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Matt Bigarani
[mailto:matt@westpak.com] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 01, 2010 2:09 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> users@lists.scilab.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [scilab-Users] C API Hangs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I’m attempting to get some I/O going between an application
I’m developing and Scilab. (This is on Windows XP using mingw/gcc). I
believe I have all the Scilab headers included properly and my code compiles,
but calling StartScilab(NULL,NULL,NULL); results in the application hanging
indefinitely because StartScilab() never returns…<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone have any experience with this?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Matt <o:p></o:p></p>
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