Why use dotenvy over doteny_macro?

[Dosx001]

Unlike doteny, doteny_macro works both with cargo run and cargo build.

[allan2]

Can you provide more details? I'm not sure I understand.

[Dosx001]

@allan2

fn main() {
    dotenvy::dotenv().ok();
    let secret = dotenvy::var("SECRET").expect("SECRET must be set");
    println!("{}", secret);
}

./target/debug/env
hello

cd ..
./env/target/debug/env
thread 'main' panicked at src/main.rs:3:41:
SECRET must be set: EnvVar(NotPresent)
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

If I replaced dotenvy with dotenvy_macro, I can run the program anywhere and package it for another system.

[allan2]

There is a discussion on this here on the Tauri repo.

dotenvy_macro loads at compile-time whilst dotenv loads at runtime. If you make a minimal reproducible example, perhaps in a new repo, I can take a closer look.