Setting environment variables for Sublime Text on OSX desktop

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I'd like to be able to access my JAVA_HOME variable that has been set in my .bash_profile from within my sublime text build. When I build I get the following error.

Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly. We cannot execute ....

This is obviously because ST2 doesn't read in my bash profile. Is there any hack around for this?

Thanks!

seems to be already asked http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8574919/sublime-text-2-custom-path-and-pythonpath — john Smith, Sep 23 '14 at 12:04
I read all of that thread, none of it helped. Tried the python script at the bottom and no joy — alexrogers, Sep 23 '14 at 12:46

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:04

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On UNIX child processes inherit the environment of the parent process. In this case, Sublime Text is not launched through a process chain which would include bash shell which in turn is reading its profile file.

.bash_profile is usually executed on shell login. Depending on your operating system it is not executed when you enter to your desktop environment. Thus, the environment variables are not avaiable.

Workarounds

Put environment variables to a file which is read on the computer boot always (no idea which file unless you tell your operating system) (e.g. lanchd.conf for OSX GUI applications or /etc/profile on Linux)
Modify your dekstop launcher icon
Put hardcoded paths to your build file
Launch Sublime Text using subl alias from your bash shell instead of desktop icon

More about .bash_profile and .bashrc

edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:04

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answered Sep 23 '14 at 13:43

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I'm on MacOS Mavericks. Ideally I don't want to put hardcoded paths in the build file. I am already launching sublime from bash. Please explain the first option. Thank you – alexrogers Sep 23 '14 at 15:23
Updated the answer how to sen environment variables for OSX GUI applications – Mikko Ohtamaa Sep 23 '14 at 16:42
Thank you. Also was just told it works if you install Apple's Java rather than from the Oracle SDK. – alexrogers Sep 26 '14 at 08:22
I guess Apple's Java installer does the launchd.conf patching itself. – Mikko Ohtamaa Sep 26 '14 at 08:45

Setting environment variables for Sublime Text on OSX desktop

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