Re: environment variable issues... (windows problem)

[Marc Brünink]

On Donnerstag, Jun 30, 2005, at 07:00 Europe/Berlin, Lloyd Dupont wrote:

> Problem..... probably understood..... :/
> my code link with libgnustep base, thus initializing all the 
> classes....
> the environment variables are cached when the ProcessInfo class is 
> launched...
>  
> so when I update it, it's too late... :(
> mmhh... :/
>  
> well, trying to work around that...

Perhaps you should write a C program, which sets the enviroment and 
after that launch the gnustep programm with ShellExecute(..). I did it 
once, but I didn't test it enough to be sure it'll work.


regards
Marc


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lloyd Dupont
> To: GNUstep Discussion
> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 2:39 PM
> Subject: environment variable issues... (windows problem)
>
> I have a program which call
> putenv("GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT=some/valid/path");
> early.
>  
> later on I call [NSApplication sharedAplication]
> and on the command line I get printed the following:
> Warning - GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is not set - using 
> ~C/Tmp/oIwTvbJ63H/GNUstep-i3kU/System
>  
> could it be something like static gnustep-base is statically linked to 
> C Runtime?
> is which case what is the work around?
>
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