On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Mark Hadfield wrote:
> Alex Goldman wrote:
> > When I execute a *.bat file containing lines like
> >
> > Set FOO=12345
> >
> > FOO does not show up in the environment of the Cygwin shell. Further,
> > if I execute Win32 programs that access the environment, they can not
> > see FOO either.
>
> [snip]
> You should write bash commands to set the environment variables. You can
> invoke them at the prompt or bundle them in a bash function and invoke that.
> (It's no good putting them in a shell script and processing it with /bin/bash:
> it'll all be forgotten when the subprocess exits.)
But you could "source" the script (using either "source" or ".")...
> [snip]
> By the way, do you really want to *prepend* entries to the LIB and INCLUDE
> environment variables (as opposed to starting from scratch)? If so, you'd
> better make sure the existing variables are in the Windows format expected by
> your compiler. Ending up with INCLUDE set to something like:
>
> C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit
> 2003\include;/usr/local/include:/usr/include
>
> would not be cool.
Beware of setting LIB -- it may screw up Perl.
Igor
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