Relevant information: How to set PATH for Finder-launched applications

String path = Sys("echo $PATH");

//gives path="$PATH";

I had seen that link before I posted but I could not to digest. That's why I posted here. It is not about setting the PATH. It is about getting the PATH. We are not going to ask every theide user to set "sudo launchctl config user path", aren't we? Moreover, the PATH is set. I can get it on terminal with 'echo $PATH' without problems. The questions is - how to get it programatically with upp the right way. getenv used inside ide is the wrong way.
P.S. for some reasons this doesn't work:

Sys("sh -c \'echo $PATH\'");

Novo wrote on Thu, 05 January 2023 01:23

Relevant information: How to set PATH for Finder-launched applications

I had seen that link before I posted but I could not to digest. That's why I posted here. It is not about setting the PATH. It is about getting the PATH. We are not going to ask every theide user to set "sudo launchctl config user path", aren't we? Moreover, the PATH is set. I can get it on terminal with 'echo $PATH' without problems. The questions is - how to get it programatically with upp the right way. getenv used inside ide is the wrong way.
P.S. for some reasons this doesn't work:

String path = Sys("echo $PATH");

//gives path="$PATH";

echo is excluded...
More info on this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36326868/getting-environ ment-variable-path-in-linux-using-c-in-eclipse

     Open Directory forms the foundation of how Mac OS X accesses all authoritative configuration information
     (users, groups, mounts, managed desktop data, etc.).  This allows use of virtually any directory system
     via Apple and third party modules.

Hi,

...
Since $PATH is not part of unix echo command, it is a *shell* variable, it is actually the responsibility of shell to replace it with the actual path here. You need to run the command via a shell so that it can inherit the shell's env, and the shell can replace the variable with the output.

And using bash does not seem optimal here, AFAIK the practice is to symlink sh to the preferred shell installed on the system.

Sys("sh -c \'echo $PATH\'");

should work.

Best regards,
Oblivion

fudadmin wrote on Wed, 04 January 2023 23:43

Novo wrote on Thu, 05 January 2023 01:23

Relevant information: How to set PATH for Finder-launched applications

I had seen that link before I posted but I could not to digest. That's why I posted here. It is not about setting the PATH. It is about getting the PATH. We are not going to ask every theide user to set "sudo launchctl config user path", aren't we? Moreover, the PATH is set. I can get it on terminal with 'echo $PATH' without problems. The questions is - how to get it programatically with upp the right way. getenv used inside ide is the wrong way.
P.S. for some reasons this doesn't work:

String path = Sys("echo $PATH");

//gives path="$PATH";

echo is excluded...
More info on this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36326868/getting-environ ment-variable-path-in-linux-using-c-in-eclipse

It was supposed to be a hint.
Macos doesn't seem to run a login shell when you log into an account. This is why PATH is not set.
If you check Macos Terminal settings you'll find "on launch" setting. By default it runs a login shell.
Basically, you log into system each time you launch a terminal

Related info:
man opendirectoryd

     Open Directory forms the foundation of how Mac OS X accesses all authoritative configuration information
     (users, groups, mounts, managed desktop data, etc.).  This allows use of virtually any directory system
     via Apple and third party modules.

PATH shouldn't be used with Macos GUI apps, IMHO.

This is why PATH is not set.

Sys("sh -c \'echo $PATH\'");

Sys("sh -c \'echo $PATH\'");

No. The PATH is set. It is only NOT correctly retrieved with the getenv("PATH") function. Or let'say it is the other PATH set.

But in Terminal one can get the correct one. And I tested it.
And it is also possible to get the correct one with what Oblivion correctly corrected:

Sys("sh -c \'echo $PATH\'");

Do any opendirectoryd API functions/classes exist?
Or anything else what could correctly replace getenv? Or $PATH?
Or any code which is more politically and/or programatically correct than this:

Sys("sh -c \'echo $PATH\'");

?

Do any opendirectoryd API functions/classes exist?
Or anything else what could correctly replace getenv? Or $PATH?
Or any code which is more politically and/or programatically correct than this:

Yes, it is set. But it is set not by a shell.
According to Set system-wide PATH environment variable for Mac OS GUI apps which is dated 2020 setting PATH via /etc/launchd.conf works.
Comments to "How to set PATH for Finder-launched applications" say that this doesn't work ...
Sys("sh -c \'echo $PATH\'") is a hack. This is not a Macos way. You are not supposed to use shell on Mac. Macos itself doesn't launch shell on login.

This is why I personally wouldn't recommend to use PATH in GUI apps on Mac.

Legally Macos is Unix (and Linux and different flavors of BSD are not), but practically it is something different

I do not know what you need PATH for, but I believe there should be a different way of solving your problem.

$PATH has got a lot more than getenv("PATH")
One of the reasons why theide can't find libclang.
How to load libclang - that's a different question...

My strong guess that the PATH is set by the shell. But by the wrong shell...