I''m working on some cgi stuff, but do not have access to a telnet account or I would just ftp my .c file up to the server and compile it with gcc... I''m looking for a compiler that will compile out to a unix executable binary on a windows machine. Does anyone know if there is a compiler available that will do that? ao

Convert your script to Perl. I know it doesn''t answer your question, but CGI scripts were MEANT to be written in Perl, not C!

Muzzafarath: as far as I know, there are no set languages for
CGI scripting.


Cyberdrek
Headhunter Soft
DLC Multimedia

quote:
Muzzafarath: as far as I know, there are no set languages for CGI scripting.

I know that, I was just saying that it's much better to write CGI scripts in Perl. Who wants to worry about buffer overflows when writing CGI scripts anyway? Perl was designed to handle text in an efficient manner (I believe Perl stands for "Practical Extraction and Report Language"), C was _not_ designed to handle large masses of text, and basically everything you do in CGI scripts is lots of text, and Perl is really good at this.

Edited by - Muzzafarath on October 30, 2000 11:26:13 AM

quote:Original post by Muzzafarath

Convert your script to Perl. I know it doesn't answer your question, but CGI scripts were MEANT to be written in Perl, not C!

I have written CGI scripts in C. The key is to find a host that will give you a shell account. If some serious computations are going to be done each time a CGI is called, then I would definitely opt for C.

If you are not going to do serious number crunching in your CGI, then a better alternative to both C and Perl is PHP. It is free, and has built in support for connecting to a MySQL server, on the fly image generation, and the code is placed within the HTML page and processed on the server before sent out to the client.

So, I suggest you find a server that offers PHP and MySQL and a shell account for that matter. Cost just isn't an issue anymore. I'm sure you can find a host that will give you these features for less than $10 a month.

More info on PHP: www.php.net

Also, PHP is compiled right into the Apache server, so little overhead is incurred when a PHP script is processed. In addition, PHP offers full 'regular expression' support for text processing.



Edited by - bishop_pass on October 30, 2000 11:56:02 AM

Edited by - bishop_pass on October 30, 2000 11:56:36 AM

quote:Original post by Staffan

I''m not sure about this but don''t you have to chmod the cgi script and allow it to be executed? Anyways, I know you usually can not just put it in your personal directory on the server...

That is true, it must be executable and in the cgi-bin.

Ok, thanks for the help guys. I''ll dig a little deeper into gcc. I was thinking about looking at perl as well, but I really want to do it in c since I have done all my previous scripts in c.

I do have an old pc lying around that I could setup linux on, hmmm....

Well if anyone has any other idears be sure to post em.

ao