Sorry I should have been more specific. I actually need to access a dll on windows and retrieve specific environment variables it sets. | [reply] |
Unless the dll was bound to perl, the changes won't be made until you load the dll. It then depends when the dll sets/changes the environment variables.
If they are set/changed by the dlls initialisation, then you can
use Win32;
my $hModule = Win32::Loadibrary( 'thedll' );
to load the library and then use GetEnvironmentStrings or GetEnvironmentVariable (via Win32::API) to get the modified environment for the perl process.
If they don't get set until a particular api within the dll is called, then use Win32::API to load the dll and call the api before retrieving the new/modified values.
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BrowserUK...That's exactley what I was looking for. I'm assuming the Syntax for GetEnvironmentVariable is the same via the Win32 API correct?
Thanks
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There's no way of knowing which env vars a DLL sets unless you are the child process for which it has set them. That child process can access them via %ENV.
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If they are environment variables, why can't you access them through %ENV?
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