[gme-users] Setting environment variables of install location

[Peter Volgyesi]

The GME installer (starting from GME 4.5.x) sets the GME_ROOT (system)
environment variable to the root of the installation. 
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peter
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:gme-users-bounces at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu] On Behalf 
> Of Krishnakumar B
> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 6:03 AM
> To: gme-users at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu; 
> udm-users at list.isis.vanderbilt.edu
> Subject: [gme-users] Setting environment variables of install location
> 
> Hi,
> 
> For ACE/TAO/CIAO development, we have a powerful tool called 
> MakeProjectCreator (MPC), which automagically generates all 
> the files necessary to build a software project. For example, 
> on Linux MPC generates all the Makefiles; on Windows it can 
> generate project files, workspaces files for compilers from 
> Microsoft (VC6, VC7, VC71, VC8,NMAKE), Borland(BMake,CBX), 
> GreenHills (GHS), and IBM(VA4). It does this by reading in a 
> template file (which has a proprietary syntax) that lists all 
> the source, header, inline, resource (.rc) and documentation files.
> 
> I am using GME/UDM/OTIF and want to have all the project 
> files and workspaces generated automatically. For this, I 
> need the location of where the tools like GME, UDM etc are 
> installed on a machine. Would it be possible for the 
> GME/UDM/OTIF installers to automatically set an environment 
> variable like GME_ROOT/UDM_ROOT/OTIF_ROOT etc so that I can 
> use them in my MPC template files to describe things such as 
> include paths, library paths etc relative to that variable? 
> Then when I check-in my MPC template files to CVS, our users 
> can install GME/UDM/OTIF and then use MPC to generate project 
> files/workspaces which will work automagically, irrespective 
> of where they have these tools installed on their local machines.
> 
> -kitty.
> 
> 
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