Feature request #21127
Use relative paths in qgis-bin.env
| Status: | Feedback | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Assignee: | - | ||
| Category: | Build/Install | ||
| Pull Request or Patch supplied: | No | Resolution: | |
| Easy fix?: | No | Copied to github as #: | 28945 |
Description
In file OSGEO4W_ROOT\bin\qgis-bin.env the drive letter of the QGIS installation is hard coded.
To allow for portable edition (changing drive letters) of QGIS using relative paths or variables like OSGEO4W_ROOT is preferable.
History
#1
Updated by Jürgen Fischer about 5 years ago
- Status changed from Open to Feedback
The .env is created by the .exe when it's invoked with the --postinstall parameter and dumps the current values of the environment variables listed in .vars to it. The point of the .env is that QGIS doesn't need environment variables to start - this is required for pinning as that automatically starts the pinned .exe and doesn't know about the batch files used for a regular start. The .exe will source the .env automatically. For portable installations you could change the batch file to delete the .env and run the .exe with --postinstall upfront (on regular installations this is done once in etc/postinstall/qgis.bat)
#2
Updated by Michiel Nass about 5 years ago
Please elaborate.
I normally start QGIS via batch file %OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\qgis.bat.
The last line of that batch file I edited to make it portable and it reads:
start "QGIS" /B "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\qgis-bin.exe" --profiles-path "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\qgisini" %*
Do i understand correctly I have to replace the last line with the following two lines?
del "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\qgis-bin.env"
start "QGIS" /B "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\qgis-bin.exe" --profiles-path "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\qgisini" --postinstall %*
#3
Updated by Jürgen Fischer about 5 years ago
del "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\qgis-bin.env" "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\qgis-bin.exe" --postinstall start "QGIS" /B "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\qgis-bin.exe" --profiles-path "%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\qgisini" %*