Running external programs

[Thomas008]

Is it possible to call external programs in a code that can be staticcally compiled with StaticCompiler (e.g. a shell script test.sh)?

[brenhinkeller]

It might be slightly cursed, but you should probably be able `ccall` the libc `system` function

[brenhinkeller]

Or if ccall/@ccall don't wont to compile then I suppose StaticTools.@symbolcall should definitely work, e.g.

julia> using StaticTools

julia> function sys(s)
           @symbolcall system(pointer(s)::Ptr{UInt8})::Int
       end
sys (generic function with 1 method)

julia> sys(c"pwd")
/Users/me
0

(though could get even more cursed / cause UB if done wrong, since that has no safety features)

[Thomas008]

Thank you! This works perfect!