how to create directory in c++

**deepinlife** · July 3rd, 2005, 12:10 AM

i just want to know how to create folders using c++ code...i can make files usng iostream,but can folder?
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**golanshahar** · July 3rd, 2005, 01:33 AM

::CreateDirectory

Cheers

**Andreas Masur** · July 3rd, 2005, 06:42 AM

Originally Posted by golanshahar

::CreateDirectory

This would only work in Windows...

**Andreas Masur** · July 3rd, 2005, 06:45 AM

There is not platform-independent way of doing it...thus, you need to check what the C run-time or API of the correpsonding operating system has to offer...which one are you using?

**l00p1n6** · July 3rd, 2005, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by Andreas Masur

This would only work in Windows... ;)

i think that people working in unix/linux wouldnt ask that question ("folders":)

**deepinlife** · July 3rd, 2005, 11:42 AM

thanks guys for replaying..
by the way i m using linux not windows...why would not linux users not ask that?!
i use mandrake 10.

**Andreas Masur** · July 3rd, 2005, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by l00p1n6

i think that people working in unix/linux wouldnt ask that question ("folders"

Why? Aren't there folders in Linux?

**Andreas Masur** · July 3rd, 2005, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by deepinlife

thanks guys for replaying..
by the way i m using linux not windows...why would not linux users not ask that?!
i use mandrake 10.

AFAIK, there should be a 'mkdir' function...

**RoboTact** · July 3rd, 2005, 02:18 PM

There is relatively portable boost method create_directory.

**stober** · July 3rd, 2005, 02:22 PM

Originally Posted by Andreas Masur

Why? Aren't there folders in Linux?

no respectable *nix programmer would call them "folders". They are directories.

**Andreas Masur** · July 3rd, 2005, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by stober

no respectable *nix programmer would call them "folders". They are directories.

Well...I guess that I does not have that much respect for my *nix then (IOW, my directories can be folders if they want)...

**wuser** · November 11th, 2005, 03:25 PM

Originally Posted by golanshahar

::CreateDirectory

Cheers

Is ::CreateDirectory a Windows specific function? How to create directory using C++ on Linux?

Are there any C++ functions available (that create directory on Linux) written by someone who would like to share to others?

o/w; Is there a built-in C++ function that creates directory and will runs on Linux (no Windows specific stuff?

Thanks!

Windy

**Yves M** · November 11th, 2005, 05:48 PM

Originally Posted by RoboTact

There is relatively portable boost method create_directory.

RoboTact has already given the answer. Use boost::filesystem and you'll have the bonus of having OS independent code.

**stober** · November 11th, 2005, 09:00 PM

Andres also posted a function that is portable between *nix and MS-Windows -- mkdir().

**bhas_purk** · June 11th, 2008, 05:32 PM

i had to create directories in windows using VC++
I can get CreateDirectory to work only when the path is like " c:/face"
If I give "c:/face/images" it doesnt create the folder, not even face, any help would be appreciated.

if I have c:/face created then it creates ./image also :?