[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: System path in eclipse

[Rishi <rpidva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So after some mucking around, I found out a way to do this is ant build 
file. I still don't know how to change it in eclipse


I am attaching a sample code for other's future reference.

<property name="mypath" value="${env.Path};your/path/dirs" />
<property name="cygdir" value="path/to/cygwin/bin" />
<target name="sometarget">
    <exec dir="path/to/dir/for/makefile" executable="${cygdir}/make">
        <env key="PATH" path="${mypath}" />
    </exec>
</target>

Please note, it could be any binary instead of "make" which you might 
want to run.

My main problem was in the my make file, I had some commands such as rm, 
etc which were not being recognized.

Cheers,
Rish

Rishi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Eclipse 3.3 on Win2K machine. Is there a way to set up system 
> path in eclipse and not by modifying for the system on the whole (i.e. 
> by modifying the environment variable PATH)? I am using ant build and I 
> would like certain binaries to be available to it.
>
> I tried setting it up as ant environment variable in the Builder config 
> but it doesn't work.
>
> I would appreciate if someone can help on this.
>
> Thanks,
> Rish