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Posted to dev@river.apache.org by Patricia Shanahan <pa...@acm.org> on 2015/01/06 01:37:31 UTC
Getting Started - environment
The Getting Started page does not say what sorts of environments work. I
started using cygwin on a Windows 8.1 machine with
RIVER_HOME='/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Patricia/Downloads/River'
That does not seem to be working well, because of the embedded space.
Do we need to require a directory without spaces in its full path?
Patricia
Re: Getting Started - environment
Posted by Greg Trasuk <tr...@stratuscom.com>.
Couple other things you probably already know, but I’ll mention the obvious just in case…
If you’re typing a path in cygwin, you can include spaces by escaping them, e.g. /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/…
Also, sometimes, it helps to put the path in double-quotes, e.g ‘cd “/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/…”'
Cheers,
Greg Trasuk.
On Jan 5, 2015, at 9:30 PM, Patricia Shanahan <pa...@acm.org> wrote:
> I have not yet got to the point of running ant - I'm still hoping to not
> need to build from source to do a basic demo. I was just doing a cd to
> the hello directory, but trouble there seems to indicate trouble to come.
>
> I'll try the soft-link approach.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patricia
>
> On 1/5/2015 6:22 PM, Greg Trasuk wrote:
>> Does it make a difference if you run ant in the Windows command shell
>> rather than Cygwin?
>>
>> I’ve been on OSX mostly for a while, which is basically Unix. In the
>> past I certainly compiled River under Cygwin, but normally I use a
>> folder in cygwin’s ‘/home/<insert-user-name-here>’ folder. What I do
>> is soft-link a folder called ‘/home/trasukg/MyDocs’ to
>> ‘/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/<insert-user-name-here>’ (paths
>> will vary, of course - alter to suit your own install). That way the
>> cygwin bash shell doesn’t see any spaces in its path.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Greg Trasuk.
>>
>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Patricia Shanahan <pa...@acm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> The Getting Started page does not say what sorts of environments
>>> work. I started using cygwin on a Windows 8.1 machine with
>>> RIVER_HOME='/cygdrive/c/Documents and
>>> Settings/Patricia/Downloads/River'
>>>
>>> That does not seem to be working well, because of the embedded
>>> space.
>>>
>>> Do we need to require a directory without spaces in its full path?
>>>
>>> Patricia
>>
Re: Getting Started - environment
Posted by Patricia Shanahan <pa...@acm.org>.
I have not yet got to the point of running ant - I'm still hoping to not
need to build from source to do a basic demo. I was just doing a cd to
the hello directory, but trouble there seems to indicate trouble to come.
I'll try the soft-link approach.
Thanks,
Patricia
On 1/5/2015 6:22 PM, Greg Trasuk wrote:
> Does it make a difference if you run ant in the Windows command shell
> rather than Cygwin?
>
> I’ve been on OSX mostly for a while, which is basically Unix. In the
> past I certainly compiled River under Cygwin, but normally I use a
> folder in cygwin’s ‘/home/<insert-user-name-here>’ folder. What I do
> is soft-link a folder called ‘/home/trasukg/MyDocs’ to
> ‘/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/<insert-user-name-here>’ (paths
> will vary, of course - alter to suit your own install). That way the
> cygwin bash shell doesn’t see any spaces in its path.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Greg Trasuk.
>
> On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Patricia Shanahan <pa...@acm.org> wrote:
>
>> The Getting Started page does not say what sorts of environments
>> work. I started using cygwin on a Windows 8.1 machine with
>> RIVER_HOME='/cygdrive/c/Documents and
>> Settings/Patricia/Downloads/River'
>>
>> That does not seem to be working well, because of the embedded
>> space.
>>
>> Do we need to require a directory without spaces in its full path?
>>
>> Patricia
>
Re: Getting Started - environment
Posted by Greg Trasuk <tr...@stratuscom.com>.
Does it make a difference if you run ant in the Windows command shell rather than Cygwin?
I’ve been on OSX mostly for a while, which is basically Unix. In the past I certainly compiled River under Cygwin, but normally I use a folder in cygwin’s ‘/home/<insert-user-name-here>’ folder. What I do is soft-link a folder called ‘/home/trasukg/MyDocs’ to ‘/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/<insert-user-name-here>’ (paths will vary, of course - alter to suit your own install). That way the cygwin bash shell doesn’t see any spaces in its path.
Hope this helps,
Greg Trasuk.
On Jan 5, 2015, at 7:37 PM, Patricia Shanahan <pa...@acm.org> wrote:
> The Getting Started page does not say what sorts of environments work. I started using cygwin on a Windows 8.1 machine with RIVER_HOME='/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/Patricia/Downloads/River'
>
> That does not seem to be working well, because of the embedded space.
>
> Do we need to require a directory without spaces in its full path?
>
> Patricia