Important Environment Variables | Gnosis Research Center

📄️ CMAKE_MODULE_PATH

CMAKEMODULEPATH is used by CMake to identify the location of CMake modules.

CMAKEPREFIXPATH is used by CMake to identify the location of CMake package configurations.

GCC and Clang search each path in CPATH and sometimes INCLUDE_PATH for header files.

JAVA_HOME is frequently used as the environment variable to specify the current java installation.

LDLIBRARYPATH is used by Linux to locate shared objects at runtime (as opposed to compile-time).

LD_PRELOAD is used by Linux to intercept functions in a program and replace their

GCC and Clang search each path in LIBRARY_PATH for shared objects and archives.

The PATH variable is used to locate executable objects. For example:

Python uses PYTHONPATH to specify directories where Python modules may be located.