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Posted: **Tue Jul 29, 2025 2:42 pm**

My compiler is located

/Applications/PureBasic.app/Contents/Resources/compilers/pbcompiler

and has been added to my path.

When I try and compile from the command line I get this error

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PureBasic 6.21 - C Backend (MacOS X - arm64) Free
Loading external modules...
Error: The 'PUREBASIC_HOME' env variable needs to be set to the install directory before using PureBasic.

Where is my PUREBASIC_HOME ?

I've tried setting the env variable in ~/.zprofile as :
export PUREBASIC_HOME="/Applications/PureBasic.app/"
This is the ' install directory'

and
export PUREBASIC_HOME="/Applications/PureBasic.app/Contents/MacOS/PureBasic"
This is the folder where the PureBasic app binary is.

and finally
export PUREBASIC_HOME="/Applications/PureBasic.app/Contents/Resources/compilers/pbcompiler"
this is where the compiler is , not the install directory.

None work.I can confirm that the env variable is set when I check with

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env

Thanks

Posted: **Tue Jul 29, 2025 4:17 pm**

rootuid wrote: Tue Jul 29, 2025 2:42 pmhas been added to my path.

Hi, Sequoia here; it was set in ~/.zprofile by PB this way:

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export PUREBASIC_HOME="/Applications/PureBasic.app/Contents/Resources"
PATH="$PUREBASIC_HOME/compilers:${PATH}"
export PATH

in case, check if there are "duplicates" in the following lines…

Posted: **Tue Jul 29, 2025 4:30 pm**

excellent that works.

thanks

Posted: **Thu Jul 31, 2025 11:27 pm**

Maybe I'm over-simplifying the situation... but if the PUREBASIC_HOME env var is undefined, I don't know why the compiler and/or IDE doesn't just determine PUREBASIC_HOME from its own executable path ...

Posted: **Fri Aug 01, 2025 9:45 am**

There was a similar thread about this here: viewtopic.php?t=86461

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