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<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Fellow Cmake Users-</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I am trying to set environment variables (namely PATH and PYTHONPATH) on Windows during test execution. I utilize a configuration script which gets converted from a .cmake.in to .cmake, then is used to call each of my tests. The top of my .cmake.in looks as follows:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SET(TESTARG /path/to/whatever)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">MESSAGE("TESTARG" ${TESTARG})</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">SET(ENV{PYTHONPATH} $ENV{PYTHONPATH}: TESTARG)</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">MESSAGE("PYTHONPATH:" $ENV{PYTHONPATH})</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">On Linux, this works perfectly. On Windows, however, there is no apparent change to the environment variables (NOTE: I do change the ':' on Linux to ';' for Windows). It will output:<BR>
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Linux:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">TESTARG /path/to/whatever</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">PYTHONPATH: /whatever/my/python/path/was:/path/to/whatever</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Windows:</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">TESTARG</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">PYTHONPATH: /whatever/my/python/path/was</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">It IS at least parsing through the commands, because if I put in a totally invalid value to the SET command it will fail. It simply does not set either the TESTARG (Cmake env. Variable) or PYTHONPATH (system env. Variable).</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Has anyone had any luck setting environment variables on Windows?</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks for the assistance.</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Emerson Sklar</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Computer Scientist, </FONT><A HREF="http://www.hpti.com/"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">High Performance Technologies, Inc.</FONT></U></A>
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