We too have a list of environment variables that need to be set for
different toolchains and correspondingly,
makefile takes in the values of these environment variables.
Presently, I'm running my (batch) file containing the environment
variables
on a shell and then calling "eclipse.exe".
As eclipse is being called in the same shell as the environment
variables,
this arrangement is working fairly well..However, I cannot change the
environment variables on the fly once eclipse is launched.Also,I am not
supposed to change/modify the existing makefiles.
Alex, You mention making new environment variables accessible to
external
tools
would be easy. Kindly let us know how ?
-Roopa
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We have the need for a very flexible environment variable interface.
Our
plug-ins support multiple toolchains, each using/requiring different
environment variables. So, we must allow the user to switch the
target/toolchain on the fly, which will then use a different set of ENV
variables. Because we couldn't manage the environment on the fly, we
decided to place the environment creation in the makefile. Each
target/toolchain configuration will have its own generated makefile, so
this has worked fairly well.
The downside is that we do have processes that need environment
variables
but are not best suited for running in makefiles or other batch scripts.
But, because the variables must still remain dynamic, we cannot use the
environment support with the Eclipse launcher.
You mention making new environment variables accessible to external
tools
would be easy. How so?
Chad Barnes
Rockwell Collins Inc.
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Maybe I don't understand your problem well, but I guess there is almost
all now to set appropriate environment. If your Eclipse launch script
(or Windows batch file) sets environment variables, javaw inherits them.
They become available through EnvironmentReader. All processes we launch
from Eclipse also inherit this environment. The two major things we lack
are UI for setting additional environment variables and method of
storing these extra settings in environment to make them available to
external tools. Both things are easy to implement. Both of them seems to
be not critical, just an convenience issue.
cebarne2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
We had the need for ENV variables as well. However, our need was
during
the build to help locate compilers, license servers, standard
directories,
etc. We decided to define our variables in our makefile with the
"export"
command. Our UI offers an interface for defining these build-time
variables and then our makefile generator places the appropriate
"export"
commands in the makefile.
The only other way we found to do environment variables was some method
on
the Eclipse command-line (a Java argument).
Chad Barnes
Rockwell Collins
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Hi,
Is there any way of setting an environment variable in Eclipse, which
gets
retained thoroughout the current active workspace?
Kindly let me know if there is any way of setting the same
Rgds,
Roopa
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