Problems Installing Doom Emacs on Windows 11

[eumel1968]

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First things first — the important Things:

My Operating System: Edition: Windows 11 Pro; Build: 26200.9168; Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.344.0

My Hardware: CPU: Intel Core i9-13900KF; RAM: 64 GB DDR5; GPU: Nvidia RTX 4090 OC; NVMe M.2 SSDs: 3 x 2 TB; SATA SSDs: 3x 4 TB; Total Hard Drive Storage: 18 TB

Install Emacs as described in the Getting Started Guide.

Of course, I have set the System enviroment variable HOME with the value C:\Users\MY_USERNAME\. And added C:\Users\MY_USERNAME\.emacs.d\bin to the path.

Everything (Emacs and Doom with default settings)!

With WSL + Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Emacs28:

Even though I've set the PATH in ~/.profile, ~/.bashrc, and /etc/environment. And after restart of the computer.

With choco as described in this article. After launch, it looks like this:

Installed a virtual machine with CachyOS using VirtualBox. Installed Doom Emacs on it. Doom Emacs started as expected:

What do I need to do to make Doom Emacs work as expected on Windows 11?

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[hlissner]

Since things are showing up in the mode-line:

It seems something is loading, but not everything. Hard to tell. Inspect the *Messages* buffer for warnings/errors at startup. An error, anywhere, can stop Doom from starting up fully.

There is no ~ or . before /.emacs.d here. It should be ~/.emacs.d/bin/doom install or ./.emacs.d/bin/doom install, otherwise it's looking for a .emacs.d directory at the root of your filesystem, where it's guaranteed not to find it.