Hi Chris, On 20.04.2021 16:47, Christopher Schultz wrote: ... cut ... When bringing non-Java binaries into the picture then they work in the process environment where >> e.g. PATH defines which directories are looked up for finding executables >> (which might be important >> for some natives) and on Windows DLLs, and in Linux and MacOS shared >> libraries need to be found by >> the non-Java native code. Hence the desire to allow setting up the process >> environment before >> starting up Tomcat in a simple, but effective way. > > You may want to do a Google search for "java.library.path".
have been aware of (and using) "java.library.path" for quite some time, it does not do for natives what it does for the JVM. E.g. adding a path via something like -Djava.library.path="%PATH%;x:\some\path" | -Djava.library.path="${PATH}:/some/path" does not change the process environment variable PATH accordingly (adding "x:\some\path" | "/some/path" to the PATH environment variable) such that a native library can issue a command that will be looked for in addition in "x:\some\path" | "/some/path" (just tested it again on Windows with Java 8). >> However, with CATALINA_OPTS you brought the startup/stop|shutdown/catalina >> scripts into the picture, >> which might be a possible solution (though being very wary >> altering/tampering such fundamental >> scripts). > > I didn't suggest that you modify those scripts. I only suggested that you use > an environment > variable that those scripts are aware of. > > Typically, admins will create a bin/setenv.sh script which sets all > environment variables > necessary for local operation. You could even change the PATH variable -- if > you really want to do > that -- there. Thank you very much for this pointer, seeing "setenv.{sh|bat}" being excercised in the Tomcat supplied scripts, if it exists! ---rony --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org