Toolbar file access level is not very good with msysgit 1.7.4 on Windows

Question

Has anyone been successful using artifacts on Windows? Mine fails and complains about version numbers.

If you are successful, which git have you used?

Answer 1

Rebar get-deps works on Windows. But:

• bash.exe should not be in PATH, so do not select this option when installing msysgit. Rebar thinks cygwin is here, but it is not :(
• Rename git.cmd to git.bat to C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Git \ cmd \. This is an ugly hack, but it seems that erl.exe can only execute exe and bat files, not cmd

Answer 2

rebar ( Dave Smith's Erlang build and packaging tool used by the Nitrogen project ) doesn't seem to work well for Windows at the moment:

lang/erlang/nitrogen>make rel_inets ./rebar get-deps ==> rel (get-deps) ==> nitrogen (get-deps) Pulling nitrogen_core from {git,"https://github.com/nitrogen/nitrogen_core.git", "HEAD"} ERROR: "c:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\bash.exe" -c ""c:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git.exe" --version; echo _port_cmd_status_ $?" failed with error: 127 make: *** [get-deps] Error 1 

This thread doubts that it works on Windows in general .
This recent irc trasncript mentions:

<Thesolonius>
and creating the app armature creates a bash script that we cannot run.
makes me wonder if our understanding of the correct installation environment is wrong?
in our release the script cannot find " run_erl "
and we cannot find " run_erl " anywhere on the box
the same code works fine on linux

<drev1>
perhaps it should be run_erl.exe/

<Thesolonius>
there is no run_erl.*

<drev1>
oh hmm

<Thesolonius>
there is start_erl.exe
but if this name was a problem, it suggests that the fixture is not aimed at windows

during the generate command?
Which would make me ask if the fixtures can give a hint regarding the current platform?

<drev1>
I'm not sure how much work was done with the fittings on the windows
looks like start_erl is the equivalent of windows run_erl
10:29, but it seems to accept different command line arguments

<Thesolonius>
what we found too

<drev1>
I assume that you will need a template for Windows to generate releases
not the create-node template that comes with the fixture