Question

I’m using node.js in my server side. Now I wanna run some binary file compiled from a .c code, how to do that?

I’ve already tried
var obj = new ActiveXObject("WwScript.Shell");
obj.run("myBinary");


But doesn’t work… Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

var sys = require('sys')
var exec = require('child_process').exec;
exec("/path/to/your/Binary", function(error, stdout, stderr) { sys.puts(stdout) });

Update:
It seems that sys module is is deprecated, use util instead as @loganfsmyth mentioned.

var exec  = require('child_process').exec,
    child;

child = exec('/path/to/your/Binary',
  function (error, stdout, stderr) {
    console.log('stdout:', stdout);
    console.log('stderr:', stderr);
    if (error !== null) {
      console.log('exec error:', error);
    }
});