On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd <markmll.fpc-pas...@telemetry.co.uk> wrote: > Marcos Douglas wrote: > >> I know that I have to define the environment variable before or after >> starting the application or IDE. >> As I said, works in WinXP... but I had a little problem with a client >> using Win7 so, I talked about this on lazarus-br list and asked to >> somebody do the test on Win7 and they said the test did not work so, I >> wrote here. > > > I think the absolutely crucial thing here is to ask what the relationship > between the session in which the shell/environment variable was defined, and > the FPC program.
Nothing. > If the variable is set and the program is run from the same prompt, provided > that it's not messed up by extra spaces or by e.g. an interposed > command.com, then it should work. No. The variable is set using a install program or Windows. > In any other case it might work, and it's entirely reasonable to assume that > the extent to which variables are passed between running processes will vary > wildly with OS version. > > I suggest the *first* thing to do is to confirm that the variable has stuck > by using the set command. After that try running the Pascal program. No command set is used. The variable has been created in the Windows System Variables. Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
