bin/idea.sh and Cygwin

[Baesken, Matthias]

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.