Starting process in new Terminal window on Mac

Question

On Windows I can do CreateProcess(..., CREATE_NEW_CONSOLE, ...) and my child process (which is console app, not GUI) will be launched in a new window. What is the easiest way to emulate this on Mac OS?

Answer 1

open -a Terminal.app $(which program) gets a new terminal running the specified program (assuming you're using bash).

You can use execve() (possible after a fork()) to acheive the same thing in compiled code without knowing any Apple APIs (I imagine there is a proper way to do this...).

Read man open.

Edit: you don't need to specify the path to Terminal.app (the finder can figure that out).

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If you have X running, it is even easier: just spawn a new xterm with xterm -e program &.

Read man xterm (which will take longer...).

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I'll second Chris about the correct use (or lack thereof) of CLI for ordinary mac programs. In my buisness this is expected but the typical user will be {confused|angry|unhappy}.