Hi I have encountered this problem when trying to develop my kotlinlang #compose-desktop

Hi! I have encountered this problem when trying to...

Anton Popov

07/31/2025, 4:27 PM

Hi! I have encountered this problem when trying to develop my first desktop app: contents of the PATH environment variable acquired from

System.getenv()

are much smaller when running a packaged Compose for Desktop app on macOS. However, when running the same app from the IDE using various Gradle tasks, PATH env var has full content. I've filed a bug on YouTrack, but also wanted to ask here — has anyone encountered this?

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07/31/2025, 4:38 PM

Yes, this is normal macOS behavior

07/31/2025, 4:39 PM

If you are not launching from a shell then you will not see shell-specific path additions

Anton Popov

07/31/2025, 4:51 PM

Can you point me to the macOS docs mentioning this behavior? I would really appreciate that 😄 Is there a way to change this behavior? My usecase is this: I use JGit to commit some code, and the git repo has pre-commit hook (bash script) that checks if you have

git-lfs

binary installed. I not, it fails the commit.

07/31/2025, 4:55 PM

I think you can edit

/etc/paths

or add an entry to

/etc/path.d

(whatever it's called)

07/31/2025, 4:56 PM

Otherwise there's some launchctl stuff in https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/51677, but who knows if that still works today

Anton Popov

07/31/2025, 5:58 PM

Thanks a lot! It seems like I will be doing this: AppleScript-generated launcher app ->

open -a /Applications/ComposeApp.app

delay 1 (second)

, and

close Terminal

😅 Seems unconventional and hacky, but works.

Colton Idle

08/15/2025, 1:49 PM

just curious. what are you building that requires env vars? im intrigued

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