Elysian Shadows

Milch wrote:This is for additional arguments for your program.
Like the '-console' for Source games to enable console on startup.

http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~lucia/cours ... ments.html

cndr wrote:you do need the parameters (int argc, char *argv[]) for linux.

Avishaiozeri wrote:

cndr wrote:you do need the parameters (int argc, char *argv[]) for linux.

Does linux has same file paths as windows? And if it does, what about different type of machine? like dreamcast or ps?

>myprogram.exe

>myprogram.exe arg1 arg2 arg3

for(int i = 1; i<argc; ++i) {
    cout << argv[i] << endl;
}

arg1
arg2
arg3

>myprogram.exe hello im ismetteren

hello
im
ismetteren

ismetteren wrote:EDIT: i dident realize the link posted by Milch contained all the information... but now when i have used time on writing it, i will let it be here

Avishaiozeri wrote:

cndr wrote:you do need the parameters (int argc, char *argv[]) for linux.

Does linux has same file paths as windows? And if it does, what about different type of machine? like dreamcast or ps?

No linux uses / instead of \ and you just start with a / to indicate root. No such thing as drives.

argv contains arguments you can send to your program on startup. Usually you start your program like this:

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>myprogram.exe

You can pass args to the program like this:

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>myprogram.exe arg1 arg2 arg3

You could then do like this in your program:

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for(int i = 1; i<argc; ++i) {
    cout << argv[i] << endl;
}

this would the output:

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arg1
arg2
arg3

if you ran your program like this:

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>myprogram.exe hello im ismetteren

it would output this:

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hello
im
ismetteren

nearly all command line tools i know uses args. ant, git, svn, make and so on.

Avishaiozeri wrote: Edit: The games that people tell you to add things like "-window" and stuff to the shortcut path, to make them act differently, is this
the arg?

Avishaiozeri wrote:does the dreamcast and ps has this thing?

RyanPridgeon wrote:It's also useful to know for Windows, that If you right click on a file and choose Open With, then choose your program, the path to that file will be stored in argv[1].