Question

I’m trying to run a cmd command in my wince7 machine.
my code is: (for example)

    STARTUPINFOW siStartupInfo; 
    PROCESS_INFORMATION piProcessInfo; 
    memset(&siStartupInfo, 0, sizeof(siStartupInfo)); 
    memset(&piProcessInfo, 0, sizeof(piProcessInfo)); 
    siStartupInfo.cb = sizeof(siStartupInfo); 


    TCHAR regsvrActiveXConsole[256] = L"cd";
    if (CreateProcess(L"\\Windows\\cmd.exe", regsvrActiveXConsole ,0,0,false,NULL,0,0,&siStartupInfo, &piProcessInfo))
    {

    }
    else
    {

    }

and I get: “unrecognized option cd.”

Do I miss something?
Do I need to add something to the image in order to run cmd commands?

Answer 1

cmd has certain usage rules, it doesn’t just execute whatever you pass in arguments, type cmd /? in command prompt for more information. To make it execute a command, you need the /C option. The valid invocation would be:

cmd /C cd

i.e.

TCHAR regsvrActiveXConsole[256] = L"/C cd";