How to add folders to the PATH environment variable?

[nahkoots]

I'm trying to install the ndless SDK using Cygwin. I've managed to complete all the instructions up to "Now add the following folders to your PATH environment variable." I've tried running the command (with the path to ndless substituted in) in the cygwin terminal, but I get a rather long error message.

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All I've come up with is that it might be caused by a wrong carriage return character, but I'm new to bash and unix, so I don't have any idea how to fix this. I've tried running d2u .bashrc and d2u bash_profile, but I got a "command not found" error.
Can someone explain what I'm doing wrong and how to fix it?

[Lionel Debroux]

I have never tried to set up the Ndless SDK under Windows / Cygwin, but I think that you'd better expand the PATH through the usual location: Environment variables popup from the advanced settings tab in the System configuration of the Windows Control Panel.

[nahkoots]

I added ";C:/Users/Nikos/Desktop/ndless/ndless-sdk/toolchain/install/bin:C:/Users/Nikos/Desktop/ndless/ndless-sdk/bin:${PATH}" (without quotes) to the end of the Path variable in the Windows Environment Variables list, but I'm not sure if it works. Is there a way I can check it before proceeding to the "make" step (that doesn't work either)?

[Lionel Debroux]

First of all, you need to remove that "${PATH}"
Then, restart your shell, and type "set" (without the quotes), then <return>.

[nahkoots]

Did both of those things. The "set" gave me a long output with no visible error message, so I assume it worked. I tried running the make command from /ndless/ and /ndless/ndless-sdk/ and got more errors.

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Both the suggested commands "git submodule init" and "git submodule update" give a "fatal: not a git repository" error.

[Adriweb]

Did you do this in the folder, at first, as explained here: https://github.com/ndless-nspire/Ndless ... nd-the-sdk?

git clone --recursive https://github.com/ndless-nspire/Ndless.git

[nahkoots]

I just did that, and it completed successfully. I still run into the same error when I try to use the "make" command, though.

[Adriweb]

And what if you try the 2 git submodule commands, given when you type 'make' in the 'ndless' folder?

[nahkoots]

Here's the error:

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[Vogtinator]

As your folder is still called "ndless" and not "Ndless", how git would name it, I assume you're not in the local git clone.