So
I downloaded the tarball
Unzipped it
Put somewhere nice and safe
Then I went into the Edit Path Variables dialogue and made a new one with the path to zig.exe(also tried with the directory it’s in)
Restart PC
Didn’t work?????
#Windows allergic to Zig
fluid wolf
This stuff was so annoying I left windows for 4 years
Literally quit my coding hobby until I learned about Linux VMs
hardy hill
make sure you added the folder and not the file path
late mantle
you usually don't need to restart to pick up PATH changes on windows
confirm your user path has C:\Path\To\ZigFolder
look in taskmgr for any cmd.exe or cmd.com or WindowsTerminal or powershell.exe or similar processes and kill them
start up a new powershell window and run Get-Command zig
if you've set up your path correctly, it will print something like this:
CommandType Name Version Source
----------- ---- ------- ------
Application zig.exe 0.0.0.0 C:\Path\To\ZigFolder\zig.exe
operable program or batch file.```run powershell, not command prompt
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No existing terminals/consoles can see changes to the environment (including PATH).
fluid wolf
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Get-Command zig
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (zig:String) [Get-Command], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetCommandCommand
yeah thats why i keep restarting
to no avail
late mantle
run $env:PATH.Contains("zig")
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shows result of dumping your environment (or PATH).
late mantle
putting 10 bucks on it being a typo 😉
fluid wolf
ok so it returns false
but i can see
in the Path dialouge
its there
this one
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Like we said, you have to close that dialog, save changes, and restart your dev console.
fluid wolf
Which I have done
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We can help you more if you show your actual PATH. (start a normal command proimpt (not Powershell) and type set PATH and show us what you get
late mantle
($env:PATH to print the path in powershell)
fluid wolf
We can help you more if you show your actual PATH. (start a normal command proim...
Ok so I did this and it really isn't in Path
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There you go. On windows you can winget zig, rather than try to deal with tarballs.
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But since you have it (assuming you got the Windows tarball downloaded and unpacked), you just need to edit your path correctly.
fluid wolf
yeah im doing it the easy way
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not sure which way that would be for you 😉