gulp not found on windows

[nyn3x]

I just installed atom-build. I have a Project with a gulpfie.js.

When I Trigger a build gulp cannot be found, because just "gulp" is being searched for as an executable in the path. Windows seems to only look for gulp.exe oder gulp.com, but my path contains a gulp.cmd instead.

[noseglid]

How did you install gulp?

[nyn3x]

I just ran "npm install gulp -g" from my commandline.

[noseglid]

Hmm allright. It seems as atom-build should look for 'gulp.exe' as well to be compatible with windows. I don't have windows myself so it will be difficult to fix for me. I'm guessing it should look at os.platform to determine which binary to use.

[nyn3x]

Well, actually gulp.cmd would be better, because at least on my machine (and being a total newbie to node.js) I have a npm-folder with a gulp.cmd, which was created by the "npm install" command.

[noseglid]

I finally got a hold of a windows computer. When I do npm install gulp -g in cmd.exe it successfully installs gulp globally into C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming\npm\. (this can be seen by running where gulp.

Can you verify that you did a global install from an Administrator command prompt?

[gpit2286]

This definitely sounds like a path problem.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24027551/gulp-command-not-found-error-after-installing-gulp
http://stackoverflow.com/a/9588052/1041104

See if either of those help you

[noseglid]

Closing this out. Please re-open the ticket if the problem persists.

[nyn3x]

running where gulp shows me the same location:

C:\Users\eiben>where gulp
C:\Users\eiben\AppData\Roaming\npm\gulp
C:\Users\eiben\AppData\Roaming\npm\gulp.cmd

I can run gulp from the command-prompt (cmd) just fine, Only from within atom-build the gulp.cmd seems not te be found.

[noseglid]

Did you try the suggestions linked by @gpit2286 ?
It appears as those paths are not in your system path environment, hence Atom is unable to find where gulp is installed.

[nyn3x]

Well, as I said, I can execute gulp from the prompt just fine, it's just that atom-build doesn't seem to recognize gulp, as it's looking for a gulp.com or gulp.exe, but not a gulp.cmd. I believe that's something, windows itself is causing. I looked at the call-trace using the sysinternals process-monitor.

As you can see with the where-command a couple of comments above, the gulp.cmd is locate just there.

The links of @gpit2286 refere to problems, where gulp doesn't seem to be found by the command-prompt at all. When I type gulp at the prompt I get the following:

C:\Users\eiben>gulp
[15:16:10] No gulpfile found