Thank you Michael! On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 9:31 AM Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2020, Darius Blaszyk via fpc-pascal wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 11:43 PM Darius Blaszyk <dhkblas...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > >> > >> I have done so for the xz format already. The code checks first if the > >> utility is available and then invokes it. Potentially any other utility > >> might be included that way. However, I was hoping to include mainly > native > >> libraries where possible to reduce dependencies. > >> > > > > By calling the archive utility from the command line I am able to add > more > > formats easily. One thing though is that to be more robust I would like > to > > check the availability of the utility from the command line. One way of > > doing this is using "whereis", but I was wondering if something like this > > exists already in FPC? > > Yes: > > https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/current/rtl/sysutils/exesearch.html > > Combine with GetEnvironmentVariable(): > > Exists:=ExeSearch('myexe',GetEnvironmentVariable('PATH')); > > Michael. >
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