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Re: Setting the Windows Path variable for children of a bash script....
- From: Matthew Bogosian <mattb at columbia dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:54:38 -0800
- Subject: Re: Setting the Windows Path variable for children of a bash script....
- References: <c97b679ac4abf5b562e0134cf11df760@columbia.edu>
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Incidentally, I have already thought of doing something like this:
# ...
Path="$(cygpath -pw "${PATH}");$(cygpath -pw "${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}")"
export Path
exec "${0}.bat" "${Path}" ${1+"${@}"}
Where "${0}.bat" may be something like:
set Path=%1
shift
%1 %2 %3 ...
But this does not work, since some of my arguments may contain spaces
(which are not parsed correctly in the batch file), and batch files
have an unusable limit on the number of useful arguments they can parse
(%* is *not* affected by the shift batch file command, nor does it
properly quote arguments). Using "%1" "%2" "%3" ... does not help
either.
In short, I do not believe that batch files are a viable solution to my
problem (though this may stem from my ignorance on how to write them
robustly). Either way, I would like to find an alternate solution.
-- Matt
On Feb 8, 2005, at 14:43, Matthew Bogosian wrote:
...
I'm trying to execute a cygwin-ignorant Windows binary from a bash
script. However, the DLLs required to load this binary are not in the
system- or user-wide Windows Path variable (nor do I want them to be).
I'm trying to modify the environment before execution of this binary,
but it doesn't seem to work. Here's what I've got:
# ...
Path="$(cygpath -pw "${PATH}");$(cygpath -pw "${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}")"
export Path
exec /cygdrive/c/path/to/windows/binary.exe
LD_LIBRARY_PATH contains the paths in which the DLLs specific to
binary.exe reside. Unfortunately, binary.exe doesn't seem to be able
to find them there when being invoked from the script's exec command.
...
Does anyone know how to do this? Any help is much appreciated.
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