Help: Support for Windows

[TeoDev1611]

I use native lsp on Windows and Linux but I try some plugins which work only Linux and MacOS this plugin work in Windows or not ?🤔

[williamboman]

Hey @TeoDev1611! None of these installers have been tested on Windows, so YMMV. There are some installers that explicitly does not support Windows, for example rust_analyzer. LSP servers that only require you to install an npm package might work though! Have you tried it yet?

[williamboman]

Oh, PRs are also very welcomed should you want to add support for Windows!

[TeoDev1611]

Hi I'm trying this now. This not work but in windows not exists /bin/bash this is the error ☹️

[TeoDev1611]

Oh, PRs are also very welcomed should you want to add support for Windows!

I check if I can make this, thanks for your awesome work

[JonTofant]

I get the same error on windows /bin/bash

[williamboman]

Yeah the current installers rely on Unix shell (all installers have their entrypoint in a bash shell). I imagine some would be really easy to get to work with Windows - the ones that leverage existing package management tools such as npm and pip.

I have barely any experience with Windows - is it common practice nowadays to run things in WSL? Or do people use Powershell?

[JonTofant]

I personaly use Powershell. I agree with you with npm and pip there shouldnt be much of a diffrence

[TeoDev1611]

I use powershell or cmd or for run any command in cmd you can use:

cmd /c npm --version 

For example

[barungh]

Windows 10

In my Windows machine I am getting this error

[nvim-lsp-installer] Failed to install cssls.
"...r\\start\\nvim-lsp-installer\\lua\\nvim-lsp-installer\\fs.lua:8: Refusing to operate on path outside of the servers root dir

[barungh]

Hey @TeoDev1611! None of these installers have been tested on Windows, so YMMV. There are some installers that explicitly does not support Windows, for example rust_analyzer. LSP servers that only require you to install an npm package might work though! Have you tried it yet?

rust_analyzer works fine in Windows

Microsoft is consistently working to improve Powershell

I work on both Linux and Windows

Since the release neovim 0.5 ( Lua ) I am trying to set up everything on my Windows machine

with Coc-nvim everything was working fine in Powershell

but I am trying to configure everything with Lua

I tried many configuration like NvChad, LunarVim, VapourVim etc. but every config misses something

Especially I am finding difficulties to install language servers, but manually installing them works

with Vapour/Nvim almost all is set like flutter-tool and rust-tool, but my HTML, CSS servers are not configured properly

[williamboman]

I've started looking into this now. First goal is to enable support for LSP servers installed via npm, pip, or go. The more complex installers that require scripting will be secondary.

[barungh]

I've started looking into this now. First goal is to enable support for LSP servers installed via npm, pip, or go. The more complex installers that require scripting will be secondary.

I recently found this plugin ---> lspinstall.nvim which is of course a fork of this plugin 😄 , but , it's creator has configured it nicely to work with Windows

I am currently using it , for installing language servers in my windows 10 machine,

but there are still some issues

[williamboman]

Cool, thanks for sharing! I've also found https://github.com/mattn/vim-lsp-settings/tree/master/installer which has Windows support

[williamboman]

@barungh Just out of curiosity, what output do you get from the following?

PS > python --version
PS > python3 --version

[barungh]

Both same , in Powershell 7 prompt also in powershell 5 prompt

[williamboman]

Thanks! On Windows, do you know if it's safe to assume that if python3 is installed, python3 will be available in the path? I installed python3 via the installer, but I only ended up with python in the path.

[barungh]

I installed Python from Windows app store, and ~did not manually install python~ I mean, did not manually set path,

If Python is not installed in your Windows ( Windows 10 ) machine, invoking python from powershell prompt

ps>python 

will directly take you here

Also searching for python in windows app store and chocolatey gives these results

In Edge browser ( Bing search result )

You can mention python3 as requirement also I found that few lsp servers like angularls does not install with latest npm when I downgraded from latest ( 16.xx ) to ( 14.xx ) of node then only I could successfully install servers for html, cssls and angular @williamboman

[williamboman]

Pushed to branch windows-support, feel free to give it a spin. Will look to merge in the next couple of days

[barungh]

Most of the servers are installing now, but I am yet to configure them with lspconfig

pyright, angularlsp installed

got error with few lsp

[williamboman]

Most of the servers are installing now, but I am yet to configure them with lspconfig

Sweet :+1:. If you just want to quickly try it out you can just run a one-off command like so:

:lua require("nvim-lsp-installer").on_server_ready(function(server) server:setup(); vim.cmd [[ do User LspAttachBuffers ]] end)

got error with few lsp

Yeah not all servers will be supported initially (those with custom install scripts, currently targeting *NIX shell). I'll put in a friendlier error message for Windows! I'm currently looking into whether using Node.js (via zx) as an intermediary runtime could make cross-platform support easier. So far I got rust_analyzer working, although a bit hacky.

[williamboman]

I've not been able to spend more time on this, so I went ahead and merged #70. A majority of LSPs now support Windows. There are a few remaining that require a custom install script which we'll have to deal with on a case by case basis. PRs much welomed!