Environment variables

Environment variables used by the Whack Red SDK

• WHACKRED_HOME - Path to the Whack Red SDK.

Environment variables Whack Red sets for packages

These environment variables are available for use with env::VAR_NAME expressions within Whack Red packages, their build scripts and unit-testing classes.

env::WHACKRED_MANIFEST_DIR

• TARGET - Path to the artifact target directory based on platform and build profile.
• WHACKRED_MANIFEST_DIR - Path to the directory containing the manifest of your package.
• WHACKRED_MANIFEST_PATH - Path to the manifest file of your package.
• WHACKRED_PKG_NAME - Package name.
• WHACKRED_PKG_VERSION - Package SemVer version number.
• WHACKRED_PKG_VERSION_MAJOR - Package major version number.
• WHACKRED_PKG_VERSION_MINOR - Package minor version number.
• WHACKRED_PKG_VERSION_PATCH - Package patch version number.

Using static DotEnv variables

For setting static DotEnv variables for ShockScript to use, create an .env file in your package’s directory, with contents like:

FOO=bar

You can then refer to that in ShockScript with expressions like:

env::FOO