COMPILING QUESTION

That's very easy. Use CreateProcess () and call metalang.exe with your .mq4.

Try this, right click your .mq4, select open with, and select metalang.exe, click OK.

Have fun.

Dear onewithzachy:

I appreciate your prompt reply very much. However, could you please show me an example?

You do not need or want to recompile your EA. If you want it to do a restart that is very easy. It is probably not a good idea to actually call init() directly but i am sure i have seen somebody demonstrate this by making init() call a replacement function _init(). When you want to re-init your EA just call _init().

int dummy_example_variable=0;

//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int init(){
   // DO NOT DO ANYTHING IN HERE, JUST CALL _init()
   _init();

   return(0);
}
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
void _init(){
   // do the real work of initialising here
   dummy_example_variable = 1;
}
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int deinit(){

   return(0);
}
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+
int start(){

   if( dummy_example_variable==1 ){
      Print("I got here once");
      dummy_example_variable=2;
   }
   
   if( some_sort_of_test_requiring_a_reset ){
      _init();
   }
   
   return(0);
}
//+------------------------------------------------------------------+

Dear dabbler:

Thank you very much for your help. I will test it and see how it works.

I think/thought he wants his EA/CI self destruct so that when decompiled, no one gets it - a blank empty pages :)

All of mine is self destruct.