Missing Windows entries in MSYS' $PATH?

[Andrew Pennebaker]

MSYS appears to lack many entries in its $PATH, compared to my Windows user %PATH%.

MSYS:

$ echo "$PATH"
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/opt/bin:/c/Windows/System32:/c/Windows:/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl

Compared to Command Prompt:

> echo %PATH%
C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu\Scripts;C:\Program Files\ConEmu;C:\Program Files\ConEmu\ConEmu;C:\Program Files (x86)\Razer Chroma SDK\bin;C:\Program Files\Razer Chroma SDK\bin;C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\Resources\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\Go\bin;C:\Users\a_pen\go\bin;C:\Ruby24-x64\bin;C:\Users\a_pen\.cargo\bin;C:\Users\a_pen\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\a_pen\AppData\Local\atom\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin\file-5.03-bin\bin;C:\Users\a_pen\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32;C:\Users\a_pen\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\Scripts;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\Git\bin

MSYS bash configuration:

https://github.com/mcandre/dotfiles/blob/06abd486b51c7b4ae56bd530a0afa6f4257401be/.bash_profile

https://github.com/mcandre/dotfiles/blob/06abd486b51c7b4ae56bd530a0afa6f4257401be/.bashrc

Any ideas for correcting MSYS PATH to include the full Windows user PATH?

Other shells feature the correct full PATH, including cmd, PowerShell, Git bash, and bash on Ubuntu on Windows.

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[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andrew Pennebaker <[hidden email]>
> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 16:05:56 -0500
>
> MSYS appears to lack many entries in its $PATH, compared to my Windows user %PATH%.

Doesn't happen here.

How do you start the MSYS Bash?  Also, which of the environment
variables you show are in the "System variables" and which are the
"User variables" for your user?

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On 7/8/2017 2:40 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Andrew Pennebaker <[hidden email]>
>> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 16:05:56 -0500
>>
>> MSYS appears to lack many entries in its $PATH, compared to my Windows user %PATH%.
>
> Doesn't happen here.
>
> How do you start the MSYS Bash?  Also, which of the environment
> variables you show are in the "System variables" and which are the
> "User variables" for your user?

It may be related to 64bit paths versus 32bit paths.  Just a guess I
have no idea.

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On 09/07/17 16:44, Earnie via MinGW-users wrote:
> On 7/8/2017 2:40 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> From: Andrew Pennebaker <[hidden email]>
>>> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 16:05:56 -0500
>>>
>>> MSYS appears to lack many entries in its $PATH, compared to my
>>> Windows user %PATH%.
>>
>> Doesn't happen here.

Nor here, with 32-bit WinXP or Win7, hosted by VirtualBox on 64-bit
LinuxMint Debian Edition; (although the host is 64-bit, VirtualBox
refuses to load 64-bit Windows images).

>> How do you start the MSYS Bash?  Also, which of the environment
>> variables you show are in the "System variables" and which are the
>> "User variables" for your user?
>
> It may be related to 64bit paths versus 32bit paths.  Just a guess I
> have no idea.

There may be something in this.  My first thought was: "isn't this by
design?"  It used to be thus for me too, but I abandoned Windows as a
day-to-day working platform about four years ago, (after I ceased to
work for any company which insisted on it).  I don't know either, but
IIRC, on Win64, MSYS has to be run under SysWOW64; maybe the full
64-bit Win64 %PATH% doesn't propagate to 32-bit SysWOW64?  (In my
case, it WAS by design: I created a custom $HOME/.profile, in which I
explicitly set PATH, deliberately omitting all the Win32 cruft, with
which I had no desire to pollute my MSYS $PATH; perhaps the OP could
do something similar, to ADD the missing directories ... assuming, of
course, that they are appropriate for use from within SysWOW64?)

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Keith.

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