I have an msbuild project file that is used for building several C++ projects (*.vcproj). Here's a part of a typical project file, in which global environment variables for the build are overridden as properties: <PropertyGroup> <MYBINDIR>d:\buildsysroot\bin</MYBINDIR> <MYLIBDIR>d:\buildsysroot\lib</MYLIBDIR> ... </PrpertyGroup> ...
I'm hoping there's a way to play with environment variables to achieve this because I need to access this in a Windows command shell. I found the directory in [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders] Desktop, but I have no idea how to access this information from a command shell! %UserPr...
Hi In my makefile I want to create an environment variable using the current date and time. Psuedo code: LOG_FILE := $LOG_PATH + $SYSTEM_DATE + $SYSTEM_TIME Any help appreciated - thanks. ...
I have a Bash script that basically initializes an application and sets parameters. One of these parameters is the location to OpenOffice. Now OpenOffice doesn't set an environment variable when you install it. What is the best method of finding the location of an application installed and caching that information so you don't have to d...
In a batch file you can use %PROGRAMFILES% to get the location of the program files directory, how do you do it in a VBScript? ...
I want to iterate over the environment keys and print a list of these items. ...
I have a script that I wrote that can either be used on the command line or as a CGI script, and need to determine how the script was called so I can output a content-type header for web requests (and maybe some anti-cache headers too). My first thought is to check for the existance of http environment variables: my $js = build_javascri...
Hi there, Our host does not allow us to modify the passenger config file (i.e. the apache config OR the vhosts file), but we'd like to run rails in dev mode. So we have to specify the environment (prod/dev/test) in one of the files that rails loads AS the application is restarted. Anyone know how to do this? We've tried the following wi...
I have to build two web service applications to be deployed to different servers (WebSphere 6.1). One of them is “linked” to another by calling its services, so the first web service application should be aware of the endpoint URL of the second one. Those applications are working in different environments: Dev, Test and Production. I h...
I'm writing a Win32 DLL with a function that adds a directory to the Windows PATH environment variable (to be used in an installer). Looking at the environment variables in Regedit or the Control Panel after the DLL has run shows me that my DLL has succeeded in adding the path to *HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Sess...
I've used the TMP environment variable to control things like where gcc writes it's temporary files, but I can't seem to find an equivalent for java's createTempFile API. Does such an environment variable exist? ...
Hi, I am having trouble with the following command prompt commands (in Windows XP). set SOMEVAR= for /F %i in (1 2 3) do set SOMEVAR=%SOMEVAR% "%i" echo %SOMEVAR% I expect it to build the SOMEVAR variable so that it contains each item in the for loop in quotes, separated by a space: 1 2 3 However what this is what I get...
Hi, I have this logback.xml file: <configuration debug="true" scan="true" scanPeriod="60 seconds"> <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender"> <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout"> <Pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n</Pattern> </layout> </appender...
I need to find a way to reference environment variables INSIDE the Inno Setup script file (.iss)... I've found plenty of references to MODIFYING the environment from an .iss, but none on how to actually use it. Is this possible? ...
Is there any way to make an environment variable substituion in a project file (with or without vsprops) that, if the variable is not found, is substituted instead with a default value? I haven't found any way to do this, because everything seems to override environment variables. EDIT: I need this to work for a property, not for an env...
I'm trying to set a variable that should be accessible from outside PHP. Ideally this should be a local variable, but environment variables are also welcome. First, I've tried putenv(), but this gives no result: $ php -r "putenv('PHP_TEST=string');" ; echo $PHP_TEST $ When i call getenv() from the same script — it results in ...
So, I have a 32 bit program which needs to check if files exist. However, the locations (which can come from both shortcuts and the registry) often make use of Environment Strings. I use the ExpandEnvironmentStrings api to expand them, then check if the file exists. However, because it is a 32-bit application (note environmental strin...
At first glance this seems like a purely subjective/aesthetic issue, but I'd be interested to hear opinions (especially any technical ones) on whether environment variables or the registry is the preferred place for storing configuration data in a Windows environment. I can currently only think of the following differences: Registry s...
Hi all, sorry if this is a repeated question but I was trying to figure out env, ( i.e. calling a util with a new environment). Just as an example my environment variable KDEDIRS = /usr in my current environment and lets say I type: env -i KDEDIRS=/home/newkdedir env This outputs KDEDIRS=/home/newkdedir as expected. (i.e calling se...
In my website I want to virus-check any uploaded files before saving them into my database. So I save the file to the local directory then kick-off a command-line scanner process from inside my C# program. Here is the code I use: string pathToScannerProgram = Path.Combine(virusCheckFolder, "scan.exe"); ProcessStartInfo startInfo = n...