Windows exc file upload

[Michael Collier]

Hi,

I am working on a SOAP system that uses a windows executable to serve data.

Does x10hosting support the upload of windows exe files to a cgi directory?

The exe connects to a database on the server and returns xml strings.

Thanks,
Mike

[leafypiggy]

X10 hosting uses Linux. Windows executeables will not work on linux. You would have to have a windows VPS or dedicated server in order to run executeables.

[alcramer]

Hi Mike --
Implementing a SOAP service in C/C++/C# (or any other compiled language) is problematical: whoever is hosting your service has to let you compile (and then run) your code on their machine. (Compile-on-my machine, then upload-and-run-on-your-machine is also possible, but even harder to pull off). Neither would work here: on x10, you can only upload & run code written in Perl or Php.
That's the bad news. The good news is: it's not hard to port an app written in C/C++ to Perl. If you want to write cross-platform server side apps, Perl is the way to go. (I'm pretty sure you could do it in Php was well, but I used Perl because my apps do lots of math & Perl is supposed to be faster).
If you're interested in porting your code to Perl, drop me a line at <kalo@kalo.cnc.net>. If you want to port to Php, I can't help you but there are surely people here who can.