8213591 : running bin/idea.sh in Cygwin: generated project cannot be imported - was : RE: bin/idea.sh and Cygwin

[Baesken, Matthias]

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.