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custom PATH for application

Hi everyone,

I am trying to adjust the windows PATH environment variable for my application, but I do not want to modify the global PATH. Is there an option in the build specification that I don't see? Any other built-in method?

One way to do this is to launch the application with a custom shortcut like this. Another way would be to start the application from a bat file that sets the PATH. Both would need to be created from a post-install script which proves rather difficult 😉


For context: this issue comes up because I want to ship an embedded python environment with my application. For the Call Python Node to find python, it needs to be listed in the PATH.

Cord

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Nevermind, I didn't realise I can set this from within the application. You can call SetEnvironmentVariable in the kernel32.dll as described here: https://lavag.org/topic/2994-system-variables-in-windows

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