Script for Windows not working

[Abhimanyu Aryan]

trying to follow this: https://petvana.github.io/AutoSysimages.jl/stable/install/#Script-for-Windows and getting the below error

C:\Users\aryan\Documents\AutoSysimages.jl\scripts>cd windows

C:\Users\aryan\Documents\AutoSysimages.jl\scripts\windows>./asysimg.bat
'.' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\aryan\Documents\AutoSysimages.jl\scripts\windows>asysimg.bat
'"C:\Users\aryan\Documents\AutoSysimages.jl\scripts\windows\\julia.exe"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[Petr Vana]

The last one seems to work, but is unable to find Julia in your PATH. @AbhimanyuAryan Are you able to run Julia from the same terminal? When you install Julia using installer, there is an option to add it to the PATH.

Also, it should be possible to use both asysimg.bat or only asysimg for short.

(I'm not big fan of Windows, so this may not be tested well, sorry for that.)

[Abhimanyu Aryan]

@petvana I am using juliaup from Microsoft Store. Do you think that's an issue?

[Petr Vana]

@AbhimanyuAryan

@petvana I am using juliaup from Microsoft Store. Do you think that's an issue?

That is weird, it should be in the PATH according the docs in https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup

Once you have installed Juliaup, julia is on the PATH, and on Windows there is a start menu shortcut and it will show up as a profile in Windows Terminal. Any of those will start Julia. The VS Code extension will also automatically find this Julia installation.

[Petr Vana]

Xref: #14

[Petr Vana]

@AbhimanyuAryan Seems this can be fixed by #17 that sets an absolute path to the Julia binary into asysimg script when calling AutoSysimages.install().

[Abhimanyu Aryan]

@petvana are you planning to merge this and tag new release?

[Abhimanyu Aryan]

also why not use Sys.BINDIR for all of these? Checking on Ubuntu WSL with juliaup

AutoSysimages.jl/src/AutoSysimages.jl

Lines 377 to 387 in c8bfb5d

 function _default_install_dir() 
     if Sys.islinux() 
         return joinpath(homedir(), ".local/bin") 
     elseif Sys.isapple() 
         return joinpath(homedir(), "bin") 
     elseif Sys.iswindows() 
         return Sys.BINDIR 
     else 
         return nothing 
     end 
 end 

I think a lot of people use juliaup instead of installing directly using deb, exe or dmg

[Uwe Fechner]

I think a lot of people use juliaup instead of installing directly using deb, exe or dmg

Well, I use jill... Much better than juliaup on Linux...

[Abhimanyu Aryan]

I think a lot of people use juliaup instead of installing directly using deb, exe or dmg

Well, I use jill... Much better than juliaup on Linux...

Not sure link please?

[Uwe Fechner]

https://github.com/johnnychen94/jill.py

[Abhimanyu Aryan]

https://github.com/johnnychen94/jill.py

But this has Python as deps. Windows doesn't really come with Python pre-installed so isn’t it even easier to get juliaup with a winget and not have Python at all?

[Uwe Fechner]

Yes, on Windows juliaup might be easier... But you get the latest release only with some delay because you need to update juliaup first which is not required with jill...
And on Linux I have installed Python by default anyways... And jill works much better in China...

[Uwe Fechner]

And Sys.BINDIR() would not work on Linux due to the use of symbolic links...