[Lazarus] How to use environment variables in lazarus IDE config?

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 09:23:23 CET 2010


On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:35:48 +0100, Mattias Gaertner
<nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:

>On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:48:47 +0100
>Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I would like to specify things like the base location of files using
>> environment variables rather than entering full paths.
>> 
>> In Delphi this can be done by using the $(varname) construct, but this
>> is apparently not supported by Lazarus.
>> I googled my way through and found a reference to using $Env(varname)
>> instead.
>> 
>> But when I use this in my lazarus (to specify the location of the FPC
>> compiler for instance), lazarus complains that it cannot find the
>> executable.
>
>I implemented resolving macros for the environment option compiler file
>name.
>
>Use on your on risk.
>There is currently no real circle detection for macros, so you can
>create endless loops. There is already a bug report.

Macros?? I am talking about how to use environment variables in file
specifications in Lazarus, not about macros...

Like for example in Delphi I have this in my project path to define
the location of Indy. I have several versions of Indy on my PC because
they change Indy around such that old code breaks severely if using
the new Indy versions:

$(INDY10)\System
$(INDY10)\Protocols
$(INDY10)\Core

In another project I can have:

$(INDY9)\System
$(INDY9)\Protocols
$(INDY9)\Core

This way no matter where the individual developer has placed his Indy
files he can use the env var to set the location and the project file
(*.dof) does not have to be changed when retrieved from CVS.
It simply just works...

There are also other uses, like in lazarus to specify which FPC to
use..

> 
>> I entered the following as the FPC compiler path:
>> 
>> $Env(FPCBASE)\2.4.2\bin\i386-Win32\fpc.exe
>
>Should work now.

"Now" meaning what? Do I need to grab a newer version of lazarus and
rebuild it?

-- 

Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden





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