My experience: 1. Download lein.bat 2. Run it
Jonathan On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:23 AM, BJG145 <benmagicf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Perhaps this general anti-Windows attitude is what Windows-based newcomers > to Clojure find off-putting... > > > On Saturday, March 9, 2013 3:55:59 AM UTC, James Ashley wrote: >> >> Since I've seen a few recent posts about this experience, I figured I'd >> share mine: >> >> 0a) Install cygwin. I don't understand how any programmer stuck using >> windows can get by without it >> 1) Install the Oracle JDK >> 1a) Add javac to my PATH (I added a symbolic link to javac.exe inside >> cygwin in a directory that was already in my >> PATH: ~/bin) >> 2) Download the lein "install" script as text from the leiningen home >> page. >> 3) Copy it over to my cygwin directory >> 4) Search/replace to replace the HTML entities with the real thing. I >> think this was a matter of & and > >> 5) It was already executable, so just run it (naming it lein.sh rather >> than lein.bat was important). I got errors about >> certificates and permissions. They mentioned instructions about setting >> up an environment variable (something >> about something like `export DOWNLOAD="curl --trusting %1"`...that wasn't >> it, but it was along the same lines). >> I believe that it's some weirdness in the account settings (I have other >> issues along the same lines in totally >> unrelated packages), but I suppose I could have just installed some >> horrible virus. Oh, well. >> 6) Create a new project >> 7) Change project.clj to use clojure 1.5 >> 8) `lein repl` inside cygwin didn't work correctly. CLASSPATH was all >> windows-style, which confused cygwin. So >> basic clojure.core pieces weren't found. >> 8a) I suspect I could have set up, say, powershell, to make this work. >> But that's stupid, and I don't have time >> to waste on it. >> 9) nrepl-jack-in inside emacs worked fine. >> 9a) I'm using an init.el from other systems that already have clojure set >> up. But there isn't anything fancy or >> special or customized about it. Just standard configuration stuff that >> I've found on bare-minimal blog posts >> 10) Add a symlink to lein in ~/bin. >> >> I guess that probably looks big and scary. Windows users are used to a >> pretty GUI that they ignore and click >> "Next" a lot. I dont have a lot of sympathy. >> >> I haven't done anything meaningful here at all. But the bare-bones part >> of the installation process Just Worked. >> >> Thank you *so* much to all the people who have worked so hard to make >> this as simple as it is! >> >> Respectfully, >> James >> >> -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
