Windows Command Prompt: truffle

Hello all,

The issue I’ve run into while running truffle on Windows lies in running truffle build,truffle serve, etc. using the Windows Command Prompt. When I try to do this in a truffle project directory (for example, the one created when using truffle init, it simply opens truffle.js in the default program associated with JavaScript files (Visual Studio Code for me) and shows a run of errors in the CLI when the program is exited.

The solution I am using right now is to just run the desired truffle command in a given truffle project directory using Git Bash (installed with git for Windows). It seems to run without a hitch. Does anyone have a more elegant fix for the issue?

Many thanks, Nelly

[mm-nv]

Try these workarounds. (I’m on a windows 7 machine).

1. Be explicit. use truffle.cmd instead of truffle. e.g. truffle.cmd version
2. Remove “.JS” from the PATHEXT system var. Based on my experiments, if you dont specify an extension (.xyz) on the command line, windows will append extensions found in the PATHEXT var until it finds a match, first in the current dir, then on the PATH. When windows finds a match, the default program associated with .js extension is executed. Removing .js from PATHEXT will prevent windows from thinking that .js files are executable.

[dzarezenko]

I have created new file tf.bat in the same directory with truffle.cmd with this command

truffle.cmd %*

and now I simply call tf init, tf compile etc.