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.hega...@oracle.com> > Sent: Donnerstag, 8. November 2018 12:52 > To: Baesken, Matthias <matthias.baes...@sap.com>; 'build- > d...@openjdk.java.net' <build-dev@openjdk.java.net>; > maurizio.cimadam...@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.
