Thanks Ton for the feedback. I am pleased you got everything working and I will add a section on checking to see if SH is in the path.
David On Tuesday, 17 September 2013 11:53:40 UTC+1, Ton Gerner wrote: > > Hi David, > > Thanks for the quick reply. I didn't expect such a fast reaction, so I > shut down my PC yesterday. > > Yesterday I installed Cygwin as well (I did not mention it in my post); > entering sh bld.sh in the node.js command prompt resulted in: > 'sh' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable > program or batch file. > That was already hinting at a path problem but I did not realize that. > > Via the start menu I found the Cygwin terminal so the shell command must > be there. > Cygwin was installed at c:\cygwin > Changing to the c:\cygwin\bin directory in the command prompt, sh resulted > in: > sh-4.1$ > > The shell is there and works; so for sure it is a path problem. > > I appended C:\cygwin\bin; to the path and after a reboot it works: sh > bld.sh builds all the basic TiddlyWiki's. > Now TW5 in server mode works. > > Curious about the Github route, I searched my hard disk for other 'sh.exe' > files and found the "Github version" (thanks to Everything [1]) at: > > C:\Users\"username"\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_015aa71ef18c047ce8509ffb2f9e4bb0e3e73f13\bin > This sh.exe responded with: > sh.exe"-3.1$ > > Please add some notes about expanding the path. > sh.exe can easily be found with Everything [1] when using Windows; I use > the portable version of it. > > Many thanks for your walkthrough and the help. > > Ton > > On Monday, September 16, 2013 10:52:41 PM UTC+2, David Johnston wrote: >> >> Hi Ton, >> >> Firstly, thanks for trying out the walk through. I appreciate the >> feedback and hopefully anything we find can help improve it :) >> >> If bld.sh didn't run then you don't have anything loaded that can execute >> the shell script. So first thing we need to do is fix that. >> >> I used Cygwin instead of github for windows. Lets try that first see if >> it solves the problem. >> >> Go to Cygwin and download and install please. >> >> Once that is done, go to the node.JS command prompt again and enter the >> command: - >> >> sh >> >> it should return with something like: - >> >> sh-4.1$ >> >> If it doesn't then the shell (sh) command is not in your system path and >> we can get round to fixing that. >> >> If it does respond like that, then you are almost there :) >> >> first type: - >> >> exit >> >> This will drop you back to the Node.JS command prompt. >> >> from that position follow from step 10. in the list above .. and when it >> comes to running bld.sh you will need step 12 instead of 11 as you are >> using CYGWIN. >> >> In step 13 you will need to add SH in front of the server command .. like >> this: - >> >> sh serve.sh >> >> Hope this helps. If there is a problem I will be around for the next 30 >> mins or so before heading to bed. >> >> David >> >> >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWikiDev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidev. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
