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[Ugarz]

• Electron version: 1.3.4
• Operating system: Windows 10 (64bits) from Bash on Ubuntu on Windows
• Node: 6.3.1
• NPM: 3.10.3

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Exact error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./script/start.py", line 40, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "./script/start.py", line 34, in main
    subprocess.check_call([electron] + sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 535, in check_call
    retcode = call(*popenargs, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 522, in call
    return Popen(*popenargs, **kwargs).wait()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
    errread, errwrite)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/subprocess.py", line 1327, in _execute_child
    raise child_exception
OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

What I was doing

Hello, usually I don't have any issue with this repo' but this came out when I tryied to run the package throught Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10 64bits. Usually I work on mac and I wanted to test If a same project could be ran on "Bash on Ubuntu on Windows" and a classic MacOSX envirronment.

No problem for the mac.
On windows here it is.

Any idea about it ?
Thanks :)

[Ugarz]

I'm not quite good with Python. I've never tried it out seriously, but when I try this :

 try:
    subprocess.check_call([electron] + sys.argv[1:])
    #Here logging importing 'logging' on top of the file
    logging.debug('some stuff')
    print([electron] + sys.argv[1:])
  except KeyboardInterrupt:
    return -1

But nothing comes out, I think I'm doing it wrong ^^
By the way, I underline that I'm on windows using "bash on ubuntu on windws" (a new feature of windows 10). Reading the start.py, I'm wondering if it is not about the absolute path that he can not resolve.

[enlight]

Just a heads up, even if you work around this issue you'll probably run into #6722

[zcbenz]

You should use the electron npm package if you just want to install electron, npm start is for developers to run a local build.

[Ugarz]

Yeah that is what I've done.
I juste download this repo with a

git clone [email protected]:electron/electron.git
cd electron && npm i && npm start

[MarshallOfSound]

@Ugarz What are you trying to achieve. Building Electron locally inside bash for windows will build the linux version of Electron in a headless CLI only environment. In other words, entirely useless 😆

If you want to use Electron simply npm install electron but again, on bash for windows that will install the linux variant.

[zcbenz]

@Ugarz npm i doesn't build Electron since Electron is not a node module, you have to follow the build instructions:
http://electron.atom.io/docs/development/build-instructions-linux/

[Ugarz]

Reading the readme and trying to get to bed early solved my problem.
Sorry for my weakness.