[fpc-pascal] SysUtils.GetEnvironmentVariable

[Marcos Douglas]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd
<markMLl.fpc-pascal at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:
> Marcos Douglas wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:42 AM, Mark Morgan Lloyd
>> <markMLl.fpc-pascal at 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.
>
>
> In simple English: if you enter the  set  command, do you see the variable?
> If not, it's an OS or installer problem.

Mark,
Thanks for try to help me... but did you read what I wrote about do
tests on Win7? The problem happen just Win7 -- WinXP works fine.

Marcos Douglas