Using environment variables in Monodevelop with MonoTouch

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I've been trying to mess around with the SGen garbage collector's configurations and as I've seen here, here, and in the mono man page, I've got a few environment variables to work with.

As shown in this image, I added them to my project (checked inside the csproj too), and they only get ignored when i run my app. I got all my environment variables using Environment.GetEnvironmentVariables() and neither MONO_GC_PARAMS or MONO_GC_DEBUG were there.

So my question is how do I use environment variables in a MonoTouch project?

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Monotouch 5.2.10 (Evaluation)
MonoDevelop 2.8.6.5
Mono 2.10.8
Mac OS X 10.6.8

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Can you run the app, then open a terminal window and execute: "ps auxww | grep debugtrack" and add the line for the app's process? I also assume you're using the latest MonoDevelop? - Rolf Bjarne Kvinge
here you go codepad.org/OQsjIwnZ - Louis Boux
Which version of MonoDevelop are you using? - Rolf Bjarne Kvinge
here's everything in my version info codepad.org/qVljoGqY - Louis Boux

1 Answers

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MonoDevelop 2.8.6 does not include support for setting environment variables when executing MonoTouch projects.

The current MonoDevelop beta version (2.8.8.3) does include support for environment variables, so you can install the beta from here if you want to try it out.