On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:17 AM, <michael.vancann...@wisa.be> wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Marcos Douglas wrote: > >> 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. > > > He means that you must check using the SET command in a command window. > > So run - execute : CMD.exe > > In the command terminal that opens, type 'SET' (+enter) > > Your variable should show up in the list of environment variables.
I know I'm crazy because I develop to Win7 but I don't have the Win7 in all machines that I use... sorry about that... but again: I don't have Win7 now and I can't send an application test to the user just to confirm this. The SET command can work but that means it work using the system variables too? > Please note that under windows 7, there are system environment variables, > and user variables. Because this I always write System Variable and not User Variable. > If the application is installed using user A, but user B runs your program, > it is possible that the environment variable is not shown. > > It depends on how the variable was created by your installer. To check this, > the command window can be used. System Variable, for all users, and I checked the Win7. > The RTL of Free Pascal just calls the Windows API to get the environment > variable. No magic is performed. Yes, I saw the sources, and because this I don't understand what is wrong. Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
