8213591 : running bin/idea.sh in Cygwin: generated project cannot be imported (original) (raw)

Baesken, Matthias matthias.baesken at sap.com
Fri Nov 9 08:29:57 UTC 2018

Hello , I opened

8213591 : running bin/idea.sh in Cygwin: generated project cannot be imported

https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8213591

for the reported issue .

Best regards, Matthias

-----Original Message----- From: Erik Joelsson <erik.joelsson at oracle.com> Sent: Donnerstag, 8. November 2018 18:05 To: Baesken, Matthias <matthias.baesken at sap.com>; Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com>; 'build-dev at openjdk.java.net' <build-_ _dev at openjdk.java.net>; maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com Subject: Re: bin/idea.sh and Cygwin

A patch fixing idea.sh so that it works on Windows would certainly be welcome. /Erik

On 2018-11-08 05:12, Baesken, Matthias wrote: > Hi Chris , thanks for the info . > > However I found out that replacing the /cygdrive/C/ with C:/ in the top-level xml/iml files in the ".idea" - folder > makes IntelliJ happy, I could then open the project successfully from IntelliJ . > > So I guess a couple of "cygpath -aw" -calls at the right places in the project generation might fix the idea.sh based project file generation on Cygwin (without postprocessing). > Any comments on this ? > > Or is there another way to get .idea/-files that open "out of the box" ? > > > Best regards, Matthias > > > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chris Hegarty <chris.hegarty at oracle.com> >> Sent: Donnerstag, 8. November 2018 12:52 >> To: Baesken, Matthias <matthias.baesken at sap.com>; 'build- >> dev at openjdk.java.net' <build-dev at openjdk.java.net>; >> maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com >> Subject: Re: bin/idea.sh and Cygwin >> >> Matthias, >> >> On 08/11/18 11:45, Baesken, Matthias wrote: >>> Hello, I tried to use bin/idea.sh with Cygwin to generate project files for >> IDEA IntelliJ Community . >>> The project file generation seems to work and outputs the .idea - folder >> with lots of xml files in it . >>> However , when opening the project from IDEA, it fails with a message : >>> >>> VCS root configuration problems - >>> >>> The directory \cygdrive\C\hg\open\jdk\jdk6 is registered as a hg4idea root >> but no hg4idea repositories were found there . >>> C.\hg\open\jdk\jdk6 >>> >>> >>> Could it be that the Cygwin-paths in the generated xml-files confuse the >> IDEA intelliJ IDE ? >> >> Certainly looks like it. >> >>> Has anybody ever used it successfully with Cygwin/ Windows ? >>> ( or with some other UNIX shell/toolset for Windows) ? >> I have not tried. I use it successfully on macOS and Linux. >> >> -Chris.

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