ananthakumaran/paisa

Error using hledger to sync on Windows 11

jafin opened this issue · 4 comments

jafin commented

Describe your Environment
OS: Windows 11 23H2
Paisa Version: 0.6.2
App Variant: Desktop

Describe the bug
Configured to use hledger, when I run Sync journal it errors with

exec: "hledger" cannot run executable found relative to current directory
I copied hledger.exe into the same folder of paisa.exe. I also copied it to c:\Users<username>\Documents\paisa\

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Sync journal
  2. See error

Expected behavior
Sync journal works

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ananthakumaran commented

I copied hledger.exe into the same folder of paisa.exe.

This is not supported, golang explicitly forbids the execution of binary from the current folder. I would suggest moving the hledger.exe to one of the folders under PATH. You can run echo $env:PATH from powershell to find the list of folders.

jafin commented

@ananthakumaran I copied hledger.exe into an existing PATH env folder. Same error.
Also tried executing from within powershell, in case there was an issue with windows cmd shell. No change.

Any other suggestions?

ananthakumaran commented

@jafin did you delete the file (hledger.exe) from the folder where paisa.exe resides? if not can you share the error text assuming the text has changed?

jafin commented

@ananthakumaran thank you that was my issue. Removing the hledger.exe from the folder corrected the problem