Setting the Windows Path variable for children of a bash script....

[Matthew Bogosian]

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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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