Support for WSL and git bash on Windows

[jimmymjing]

Hello, When I run apm -version, I'm getting the warning message which: no adl in (./F:\AIRSDK/bin). I'm on Win7 and have properly setup environment variable and path. (adl command works)

I noticed that the warning message used backslash. Shouldn't it be a forward slash on windows? Thanks!

[marchbold]

What terminal are you using? That is a very unusual error message from windows. Looks like something from linux/macos.

You would normally expect backslashes on windows not forward slashes.

Can you elaborate on how you setup your system?

Also could you post the output from cmd /c set?

[jimmymjing]

Hi, I'm using Git Bash on Windows 7. The cmd command is not available.

[marchbold]

Okay, currently apm only supports powershell and cmd on windows. We haven't looked into git bash or WSL yet.

[marchbold]

So issue appears to be that you'll have set the AIR_HOME env variable to use standard windows paths i.e. F:\AIRSDK but in WSL/GIT BASH you need to use the modified filesystem paths they use. So you'll need to set it to /f/AIRSDK

You should be able to test by running apm as below:

AIR_HOME=/f/AIRSDK apm -version

[jimmymjing]

Wow! It works now! apm -version is not throwing error msg and simply prints the version number. Thanks so much! p.s. Do I need to do the same thing for AIR_TOOLS path?

Another question is that when I run the command adt -version, I'm getting the error bash: adt: command not found

adl command works though and prints the version as 33.1.1.686

[marchbold]

Hmmm okay, adt is not actually a command on windows, it's a batch file adt.bat so you may have to run that. Whereas adl is an exe. Normal windows term (powershell/cmd) will run batch files, but not sure how wsl/mingw will handle it, you'll probably have to include the extension.

adt.bat -package ...

Probably could copy the macos adt script into the windows AIRSDK/bin/ dir?

#!/bin/sh
here=$(dirname "$0")
java -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -jar "$here/../lib/adt.jar" "$@"

These are probably questions you should raise with Harman in the AIR SDK discussion forum though. I'm not sure if running these commands in this environment has been considered.

[marchbold]

Same probably is true of apm you could run apm.bat instead of the command I listed above?

[jimmymjing]

apm -version works. I don't need to run as apm.bat

adt.bat -version works!

[marchbold]

I'm just finishing up some changes to the script that should handle this path issue for you. Will include this in the next release.

[jimmymjing]

That's awesome!

[marchbold]

This should be complete, but let me know if you are still having issues.