Prisma not reading .env values in turbo repo
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uselessOP
I have a turborepo with prisma as a package. In the 
error message
my folder structure is as follows
schema.prisma
.env
turbo.json
schema.prisma DATABASE_URL is not being read or accessed.error message
 > database@0.0.1 db:migrate
 > prisma migrate dev
 Environment variables loaded from .env
 Prisma schema loaded from prisma\schema.prisma
 Datasource "db": PostgreSQL database
 
 Error: Prisma schema validation - (get-config wasm)
 Error code: P1012
 error: Environment variable not found: DATABASE_URL.
   -->  prisma\schema.prisma:14
    |
 13 |   provider = "postgresql"
 14 |   url      =  env("DATABASE_URL")
    |
 Validation Error Count: 1
 [Context: getConfig]
 Prisma CLI Version : 5.17.0
 Tasks:    0 successful, 1 total
Cached:    0 cached, 1 total
  Time:    2.472s
Failed:    database#db:migrate
 ERROR  run failed: command  exited (1)
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.my folder structure is as follows
.env
turbo.json
/packages
  /database
    /prisma
      /schema.prismaschema.prisma
datasource db {
  provider = "postgresql"
  url      =  env("DATABASE_URL")
} .env
DATABASE_URL=""turbo.json
{
  "$schema": "https://turbo.build/schema.json",
  "globalDependencies": [".env"],
  "globalEnv": ["DATABASE_URL"],
  "tasks": {
    "clean": {
      "cache": false
    },
    "db:gen": {},
    "db:migrate": {
      "dependsOn": ["^db:migrate"],
      "env": ["DATABASE_URL"]
    },
    "db:studio": {
      "env": ["DATABASE_URL"],
      "outputs": []
    },
    "db:format": {},
    "build": {
      "dependsOn": ["^db:gen", "^build"],
      "inputs": ["$TURBO_DEFAULT", ".env*"],
      "outputs": ["dist/**", ".next/**", "!.next/cache/**"]
    },
    "lint": {
      "dependsOn": ["^lint"]
    },
    "dev": {
      "persistent": true,
      "env": [
        "DATABASE_URL",
        "NODE_ENV",
        "ALLOWED_ORIGINS",
        "IPINFO_API_KEY",
        "JWT_TOKEN_REFRESH_SECRET",
        "JWT_TOKEN_ACCESS_SECRET",
        "REFRESH_TOKEN_EXPIRATION"
      ]
    }
  }
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uselessOP
Found a solution using 
dot-env cli toolAnswer
weird ik but can't do much else if you don't want to manually load the file with dotenv
uselessOP
tried it but didn't work for me, I saw it recommended in the Prisma package of turborepo examples.
maybe because I am on windows?
maybe because I am on windows?