Mmm, that seems like a shortcoming.

Well, you could just wrap the C functions yourself, like this (two possibilities, no error checking yet, quick hack):
http://hpaste.org/fastcgi/hpaste.fcgi/view?id=10565#a10565

Note that using SetEnvironmentVariable does not seem to be compatible with getEnv, but calling _putenv does work.

So I guess someone should add this setEnv wrapper to the System.Environment module? Ticket?


On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Sönke Hahn <shahn@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I need to set an environment variable from Haskell and i would like to do that
> cross-platform. There is System.Posix.Env.setEnv, which does exactly, what i
> want on Linux. There is the module System.Environment, which seems to be
> cross-platform, but it does not contain functions to manipulate the
> environment (, just to inspect it). At first glance, I didn't find anything
> relevant in the sub-modules of System.Win32.
>
> Is this just not implemented? How could i implement it myself?
>
> Grateful for any comment,
>
> Sönke
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