[Windows] "start" executable not found in %PATH%

[THUNDERGROOVE]

Error in open.Start() exec: "start": executable not found in %PATH%

However, running start in both bash and cmd work. Probably and issue with the exec package however I'm not certain.

[skratchdot]

It's probably an issue with this library I would guess. What version of windows are you using? I think I only tested in Vista (which pretty much no one uses at this point).

[THUNDERGROOVE]

Windows 8.1 when I tried it. I could try looking into a fix tomorrow.

[appakz]

@THUNDERGROOVE any luck finding a fix for that? I'm having the same issue.

[skratchdot]

I meant to download a windows 8 vm to check this out. I'm guessing one of the following is true:

1. 'start' is no longer shipped with windows 8
2. 'start' has been removed from the default PATH
3. a different program is used to open the default program in windows 8.

[appakz]

I was able to "trick" this into working by dropping a start.bat into my system32 folder. All it did was "start %1", and that was enough to make work. I'm thinking that maybe "start" used to an actual executable that lived somewhere and now is an alias that only the shell understands, but I'm grasping at straws there.

[skratchdot]

This should be fixed by c47f41e