Re: [Wrapper-user] Is the PATH separator set in a platform-independent manner?

[Leif M. <le...@ta...>]

Scott,

>Sorry if this is in the docs, I've been reading them
>and the issue of the PATH separator is noticibly absent.
>  
>
In most places this issue is worked around by defining multiple 
classpath entries for
example.   There is no way to do this in 3.0.5.   I just modified the 
Wrapper so
that it now defines a new pair of environment variables on startup.

WRAPPER_FILE_SEPARATOR is set to either '/' or '\' and
WRAPPER_PATH_SEPARATOR is set to either ':' or ';' depending on the 
platform.
This will be in version 3.1.0.

You can make use of it in the wrapper.conf as follows:
set.PATH=..%WRAPPER_FILE_SEPARATOR%lib%WRAPPER_PATH_SEPARATOR%%PATH%

Which resolves to:
Windows:
set.PATH=..\lib;%PATH%

UNIX:
set.PATH=../lib:%PATH%

The names are long but they should avoid any conflicts.  If you need to 
use them a lot
in your config file, you can do something like the following:

set.FS=%WRAPPER_FILE_SEPARATOR%
set.PS=%WRAPPER_PATH_SEPARATOR%
set.PATH=..%FS%lib%PS%%PATH%

>Sourceforge isn't allowing the user list to be searched right
>now...
>  
>
It does that from time to time.  It usually starts working again within 
a day or so.

>I need to set the PATH of the executing process to include
>a specific directory where some native libraries will be
>loaded from.  This is necessary because one library that
>is loaded directly from Java code references other libraries
>that subsequently cannot be found if they are not in the
>PATH.  i.e. setting java.library.path isn't enough.
>
>I want to do this:
>
>set.PATH=%PATH%;%MYAPP_HOME%/lib
>
>Does the Windows ';' path separator get translated correctly
>on UNIX systems to a ':'?
>  
>

Cheers,
Leif