How to run Shell scripts in IDEA via WSL1?

Andy-AO · May 22, 2021, 11:13pm

Bash Support Pro does support WSL, but the help doesn’t seem to give any specific configuration options.

I tried the following solution and failed.

Run failed

Manual path conversion

The guess may be related to the path problem, but it still fails after the manual conversion

What’s wrong? I was confused, so I came here for help.

Add more information

By default, msys2 on git bash works normally

Change setting

It still doesn’t work after changing the settings.

jansorg · May 23, 2021, 11:20am

Thanks for reporting! WSL is supposed to work, but it seems that there‘s a bug somewhere or that WSL1 is using paths differently compared to WSL2. I‘ll get back to you early next week.

Is there a c:\windows\system32\bash.exe on your system?

Joachim

Andy-AO · May 23, 2021, 10:14pm

This file exists.

jansorg · May 25, 2021, 1:14pm

@Andy-AO I discovered that there’s a bug with user-defined path mappings in the current version. I’ve fixed that for the next update of 1.5.x, which should be out in about 2 weeks.
The bug is that the mapping strategy defined in the run configuration is not used, the strategy of the application settings is used instead.

Here’s a workaround for now:

Add C:\windows\system32\wsl.exe in the list of interpreters
Set the path mapping to “WSL”
Now run the configuration as in your first screenshot, i.e. with interpreter path C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe.

Please let me know if this didn’t help or if you need help with anything else.

Andy-AO · May 28, 2021, 1:22am

It works fine now. Thank you for your answer.