Rebar get-deps does not play well with msysgit 1.7.4 on Windows

Question

Has anyone been successful with using rebar get-deps on Windows? Mine fails and complains about version numbers.

If you have been successful, which git did you use?

Answer 1

Rebar get-deps works on Windows. But:

1. bash.exe must not be in the PATH, so don't choose this option when install msysgit. Rebar thinks that cygwin is here but it is not :(
2. Rename git.cmd to git.bat in C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Git\\cmd\\. It is ugly hack but it seems that erl.exe can execute only exe and bat files not cmd

Answer 2

rebar (an Erlang build and packaging tool by Dave Smith , used by the Nitrogen project ) doesn't seem to work well for Windows at the moment:

lang/erlang/nitrogen>make rel_inets
./rebar get-deps
==> rel (get-deps)
==> nitrogen (get-deps)
Pulling nitrogen_core from {git,"https://github.com/nitrogen/nitrogen_core.git",
                                "HEAD"}
ERROR: "c:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\bash.exe" -c 
         ""c:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git.exe" --version; echo _port_cmd_status_ $?"  
       failed with error: 127
make: *** [get-deps] Error 1 

This thread doubt it works on Windows at all .
This recent irc trasncript mentions:

<Thesolonius>
and rebar generate of an application creates a bash script that we can't seem to run.
makes me wonder if our understanding of the correct setup environment is incorrect?
in our release, the script can't find " run_erl "
and we cannot find " run_erl " anywhere on the box
the same code runs just fine in linux

<drev1>
perhaps that needs to be run_erl.exe/

<Thesolonius>
there's no run_erl.*

<drev1>
oh hmm

<Thesolonius>
there's a start_erl.exe
but, if that name was the problem, it suggests rebar isn't targeting windows
during the "generate" command?
Which would lead me to ask if rebar can be given a hint as to it's current platform?

<drev1>
I'm not sure how much work has been done with rebar on windows
looks like start_erl is the Windows equivalent of run_erl
10:29 but it seems to take different command line arguments

<Thesolonius>
that's what we found too

<drev1>
my guess is you would need a Windows specific template for release generation
rather than the create-node template that ships with rebar