LinkLaunch

LinkLaunch["prog"]

starts the external program prog and opens a WSTP connection to it.

Details and Options

  • LinkLaunch["prog"] runs prog as a subsidiary or child process to your current Wolfram System session.
  • You can use a command such as LinkLaunch["math -wstp"] to launch a subsidiary Wolfram Language kernel process from within your Wolfram System session.
  • On most computer systems, calling LinkLaunch["prog"] multiple times with the same argument will start several prog processes running.
  • On some computer systems, LinkLaunch[] will bring up a program browser.
  • LinkLaunch returns a LinkObject.
  • The option LinkProtocol specifies the underlying data transport protocol to use.
  • LinkLaunch internally calls a function analogous to the WSOpenArgv() function in the WSTP library.

Examples

Basic Examples  (1)

Launch a subsidiary Wolfram Language kernel process:

Read the first packet from the subsidiary Wolfram System process:

Close the link and the subsidiary kernel:

Wolfram Research (1996), LinkLaunch, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LinkLaunch.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (1996), LinkLaunch, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LinkLaunch.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 1996. "LinkLaunch." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LinkLaunch.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (1996). LinkLaunch. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LinkLaunch.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2024_linklaunch, author="Wolfram Research", title="{LinkLaunch}", year="1996", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LinkLaunch.html}", note=[Accessed: 21-December-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2024_linklaunch, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={LinkLaunch}, year={1996}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/LinkLaunch.html}, note=[Accessed: 21-December-2024 ]}