Hello everyone,
I am pretty new to the Elixir world and at the same time, I feel like I fall in love with the language, the ecosystem around it and the community.
Currently, I am trying to follow basic elixir exercise and will try to improve upon playing with the Phoenix server and maybe LiveView as well.
So far, I have setup my environment :
Installed Erlang OTP (27.1) (Directly downloading the Windows installer from the website)
Installed Elixir (1 .17.3) (Directly downloading the Windows installer from the website)
When I take a look at the PATH that is logged, I can see the bin directories of both my elixir and erlang installation.
[Extension Host] Failed to run ‘elixir’ command. Current process’s PATH: C:\Program Files\Exercism;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin;C:\Program Files\Elixir\bin;C:\Program Files\Erlang OTP\bin
(I trimmed the path logged of unnecessary other paths, to ease readability)
The ElixirLS VSCode extension doesn’t work and it’s a pain to not have a good code editor working properly.
I already tried to restart my laptop several times, uninstall and re-installing everything from scratch.
Do someone experience the same issue ? Can somebody have another idea that I cant see ?
If you open the interactive terminal, can you run elixir in there? I’ve found debugging path locations from that terminal to be helpful. I install elixir and friends in a devcontainer with nix, so I’ve hit path issues a number of times.
You might also try running > Reload Window. I know you’ve rebooted, but the window reload can pick up env changes that happen after VSCode starts (a “common” issue for nix+devcontainer).
Yes, I am able to use the elixir CLI from within the VScode terminal. And of course from other terminal outside VScode without any issue.
I did try the ‘Reload the window’ action from VScode without any change. Upon the extensions startup I still have the same error message as in my first post.
FYI, I saw on another post it might come from Windows path with blank in the middle (like “Program Files”). So in one of my previous attempt, I already tried to put the Elixir folder in another folder like (C:/ElixirFolder/Elixir) and put that path in my environment variable. I ended up with the same error message AND the path without blank logged in the error log available in the VSCode developer console.
Somehow, the PATH is good but the elixir command cannot be run…
Is it possible that I have to give particular permissions to the elixirLS extensions ? Or VScode ?
I am out of ideas
I guess the problem is that, ExlirLS is trying to run elixir as elixir instead of elixir.bat since you are on windows.
First, navigate to: C:\Program Files\Elixir\bin and check how the executable is named.
With ElixirLS you can have a setup file. Try to find this file: %APPDATA%\elixir_ls\setup.bat and examine the content in there. Make sure everything there is correct.
I digged a bit but nothing really helpful unfortunately
@itzmidinesh
This is the only Elixir related extension in my VS Code setup. And yes I am able to use the erl and elixir command in my windows CMD, as well as my powershell and my git bash terminal. Either inside or outside of VS Code.
And it works like a charm
@psantos Thank you this might be a good hint. But I can’t found the %APPDATA%/elixir_ls folder. It is not created in my %APPDATA% folder. Either the server crash before going to the step where it created this cache folder.
Either there is something else during the execution preventing the creation of it.
Do you have more insights when this elixir_ls folder is created ?
