Mac OS: Setting Environment Variables

In order to use TC-Python on Mac you need to set some environment variables.

TC24A_HOME=/Applications/Thermo-Calc-2024a.app/Contents/Resources

If you use a license server:

LSHOST=<name-of-the-license-server>

If you have a node-locked license:

LSHOST=NO-NET
LSERVRC=/Users/Shared/Thermo-Calc/lservrc

In PyCharm, you can add environment variables in the configurations.

Select Run→Edit Configurations to open the Run/Debug Configurations window. Choose Templates and then Python. Enter the environment variable(s) by clicking the button to the right of the Environment Variables text field. Now the environment variables(s) will be set for each new configuration by default.

Note

Existing configurations need to be removed and recreated to obtain the environment variables in them.

The same way for configuring the environment variables can be used on other operating systems as if necessary.