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Hi, I really need the terminal working. On windows it tells me that I do not have cygwin installed. But that is not true, it is just not installed in a standard place. I have looked for a place to manually add the path to where cygwin is located, but I have not found this. I think it would be great with such an option as it makes the Terminal unusable to me (and probably others) as of now Regards Kim
Can you reinstall it in the standard place? For me, on Windows, the terminal window in NetBeans works fine, I installed cygwin, didn't really know what it was, following whatever instructions are out there, restarted NetBeans, and immediately the terminal window works.
Hi Geertjan I have done some (installed for all users) and still no luck. Cygwin is working fine though in its own terminal. Where does netbeans look for cygwin? Regards Kim
It looks on the command line, if cygwin runs on the command line, NetBeans (after a reinstall) will find it.
Okay, that could be it. My windows Path does not contain the cygwin executables. But this is default on win XP I think (inferred from this: http://superuser.com/questions/27668/how-can-i-add-cygwin-bin-to-the-search-path-in-windows-xp) I'll try and add it and report back.
It works if I add the cygwin path to the windows path enviroment variable. However, if you just download the setup.exe (http://cygwin.com/install.html) then this variable will not be set (at least on my XP machine). So maybe the error dialog should tell the user that this needs to be done or have an option to specify the directory to where cygwin is installed. Best regards Kim
(In reply to kimsp from comment #5) > It works if I add the cygwin path to the windows path enviroment variable. > > However, if you just download the setup.exe (http://cygwin.com/install.html) > then this variable will not be set (at least on my XP machine). So maybe the > error dialog should tell the user that this needs to be done or have an > option to specify the directory to where cygwin is installed. > > > Best regards > Kim What error dialog are you referring to? What is the current error message?
No further details from reporter about warning dialog. Closing this as wont fix as this is really specific to the individual config of the user's command window/terminal. Seems that as long as the user's path environment is correct then the commands run as expected in the IDE Terminal window.