<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>One suggestion:</div><div><br></div><div>The application lib must be loaded before get_env() can work.</div><div><br></div><div>BR,</div><div>Ulf W</div><br><div><div>On 7 Jan 2013, at 15:15, AD wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div> I have a library being built that is leveraging environment variables. There is a line in the library include file that looks like</div><div><br></div><div>-define(CONST, lib:get_env(Key,Default)).</div>
<div><br></div><div style="">the lib:get_env function simply checks</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""> application:get_env(lib, Key) % in order to check the library.app first</div><div style=""> and then</div><div style=""> application:get_env(Key) % check for local overrides </div>
<div style=""><br></div><div style=""> However when i place variables like the following in the main example.app file in ebin/</div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""><div>{application,example,</div><div> [{description,[]},</div>
<div> {env,[{'COWBOY_HTTP_PORT',9090}]},</div><div> ......</div><div><br></div><div style="">Nothing is getting read. I am not sure if this needs to be in rel/files/app.config instead?</div>
<div style=""><br></div><div style="">Appreciate any help here.</div><div style=""><br></div><div style="">-AD</div></div><div style=""><br></div><div style=""> </div></div>
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