[osgeo4w-dev] OSGeo4W 64bit shell and PATH

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Julien,

On Thu, 14. Nov 2013 at 11:32:36 +0100, Julien Malik wrote:
> OSGeo4W 64bit shell clears PATH when starting.
> This is not the case for the 32bit version, where we still have system
> and user PATH values.

> Is this intended ?

Yes, and both 32bit and 64bit should do that.  PATH is often polluted with
unnecessary stuff, that sometimes even conflicts with stuff in OSGeo4W.

> I use the shell for development task where I need a bunch of paths to
> external tools (cmake, mercurial...).  This is not quite convenient to lose
> the current PATH values.

I use alternative batch files to start my devenv. E.g.:

set pf=%ProgramFiles(x86)%
if "%pf%"=="" set pf=%ProgramFiles%
call "%pf%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" amd64
path %pf%\CMake 2.8\bin;%pf%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE;%PATH%
call "C:\OSGeo4W64\bin\o4w_env.bat"
call "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%"\apps\grass\grass-6.4.3\etc\env.bat
set LIB=%LIB%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\lib
set INCLUDE=%INCLUDE%;%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\include
PATH %PATH%;c:\cygwin\bin
@cmd




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