Thread: What are available for getting a program written in C++ to output to a website?

I have a program written in C++. I makes use of the GMP library. I would like the program to be accessible through a website. What options exist? The old school was is CGI and the new way is web-assembly. But can web-assembly work with programs using third party libraries?

Originally Posted by c_weed

I have a program written in C++. I makes use of the GMP library. I would like the program to be accessible through a website. What options exist? The old school was is CGI and the new way is web-assembly. But can web-assembly work with programs using third party libraries?

I wasn't very impressed with WebAssembly when I last tried it. Of course that was several months ago, so maybe things have improved by now.

Anyhow, there are probably a ton of other ways to do this. For example, if you have PHP installed, a simple script could be used to invoke an external program using the system() or exec() functions. From C++ you could write the output to a file and then PHP could forward the results to the user. (You may be able to actually redirect your GIMP program's stdout directly to the user as well).