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    giving .exe files to other people...

    Ok if I gave a .exe file only to anouther person woudl they be able to open it? Or do I need to include some other files?

    Because it didn't work for my friend and I only gave her the .exe file.

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    It should work as long as the exe was compiled for their operating system.
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    1) Does the EXE work for you?

    2) There are cases when the exe does rely on external files, but I doubt this program did. Could you give us a bit more detail about this program?

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    ok she has windows xp just like me and I just compiled it using dev-C++. She says she can't open it. Or it doesn't open.

    Edit: Yes it does work for me just fine.

    edit again: That is about as detailed as I can get.

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    Is it opening and closing? cause that would be the only explantion i could give try adding a cin.get() before your return 0;
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    hmm....ok well I wil ltry the cin.get() but hwat si it supose to do?

    Because I got a getch() before the return 0; so you ahve to press enter if tha tis what that is supose to do.

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    what compiler are you using?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lucas4ce
    what compiler are you using?
    Maybe read the thread?
    Quote Originally Posted by Rune Hunter
    I just compiled it using dev-C++.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pianorain
    Maybe read the thread?
    thx for the useful input

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    >>She says she can't open it. Or it doesn't open.
    Assuming no error message appears, I'd say the closest possibility is the one about it opening and closing really fast. Are you running the program from an IDE, or are you running it manually by double-clicking the .exe? Because some IDE's will add a pause at the end of the program for you, but when you doubleclick the .exe it doesn't pause for you.

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    >>thx for the useful input
    More useful than yours, I must say. At least he provided the requested info.
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    Oh don't worry about it opening and closing. I probebly should have stated this, but I use conio.h and then the function getch(). I don't know why I choose that, there is probebly an easier way to do it but I perfere that way. So that is not why.

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    As a side note, conio.h is not standard. You should really use getc() in iostream.h.

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    getc doesn't work...?

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    Oh my bad... I was thinking of get

    Code:
    #include <iostream> 
    
    int main(void)
    {
      std::cout <<"Press [Enter] to continue" <<std::endl;
      std::cin.get();
      return(0);
    }
    There's a bunch of options for waiting for a keypress listed in the FAQ - note that all of them have disadvantages except for the first two, which are preferred in one language or another.

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    it didn't work for my friend and I only gave her the .exe file.
    That is about as detailed as I can get.
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