Doom-emacs: "Exec format error" when using Doom's CLI on Windows 10

Created on 18 Feb 2020 · 4Comments · Source: hlissner/doom-emacs

What did you expect to happen?

Run any doom command successfully

What actually happened?

All of them fail with the error:

x There was an unexpected error:
  Type: file-error
  Message:
    File error
  Data:
    "Spawning child process"
    "Exec format error"

Additional details:

Include a link to your private config

https://gist.github.com/NickSeagull/346706a83a717f52d6d03c5ba51d8039

Debug mode on

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DOOM Initializing package.el
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DOOM Initializing doom-packages
DOOM Ignoring package vc
DOOM Ignoring package vc-annotate
DOOM Ignoring package smerge-mode
DOOM Ignoring package term
DOOM Ignoring package elisp-mode

Synchronizing your config with Doom Emacs...
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Byte-compiling core autoloads file...

In toplevel form:
autoloads.el:1998:50:Warning: reference to free variable rotate-text-words' autoloads.el:1998:50:Warning: assignment to free variablerotate-text-words'

In end of data:
autoloads.el:3589:1:Warning: the following functions are not known to be
defined: restart-emacs, +evil/next-end-of-method, +org/toggle-fold,
+org/close-fold, outline-hide-subtree, multi-term, magit-version,
doom-modeline-def-modeline, doom-modeline-def-segment,
doom-modeline-set-modeline, vi-tilde-fringe-mode, +workspace-p,
perspective-p, +workspace-contains-buffer-p, persp-contain-buffer-p,
+workspace-current, get-current-persp
âo" Generated .local/autoloads.elc

Installing packages...
- No packages need to be installed
(Re)building packages...
x There was an unexpected error:
Type: file-error
Message:
File error
Data:
"Spawning child process"
"Exec format error"

Steps to reproduce:

Install Doom as specified in the getting started guide
Uncomment wanted packages
Run doom update or any of the commands

System information:



((emacs

  (version . "26.3")

  (features . "XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS THREADS LCMS2")

  (build . "Aug 29, 2019")

  (buildopts "--without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32 --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3'")

  (windowsys . batch)

  (daemonp))

 (doom

  (version . "2.0.9")

  (build . "HEAD -> develop, origin/develop, origin/HEAD e3d7b2662 2020-02-18 00:20:35 -0500")

  (dir . "c:/Users/nikit/.doom.d/"))

 (system

  (type . windows-nt)

  (config . "x86_64-w64-mingw32")

  (shell . "C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/Emacs/tools/emacs/libexec/emacs/26.3/x86_64-w64-mingw32/cmdproxy.exe")

  (uname . "n/a")

  (path "c:/Program Files/PowerShell/7-preview" "C:/Python38/Scripts/" "C:/Python38/" "C:/ProgramData/Boxstarter" "C:/Windows/system32" "C:/Windows" "C:/Windows/System32/Wbem" "C:/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/" "C:/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/" "C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin" "C:/Program Files/Microsoft VS Code/bin" "C:/Program Files/Git/cmd" "C:/Program Files/nodejs/" "C:/Program Files/PowerShell/6/" "C:/HashiCorp/Vagrant/bin" "C:/Program Files/PowerShell/7-preview/preview" "C:/Program Files/Docker/Docker/resources/bin" "C:/ProgramData/DockerDesktop/version-bin" "C:/Program Files/OpenJDK/openjdk-11.0.5_10/bin" "C:/Program Files (x86)/sbt/bin" "C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin" "C:/Users/nikit/.cargo/bin" "C:/Users/nikit/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps" "C:/Users/nikit/AppData/Roaming/npm" "C:/Users/nikit/AppData/Roaming/local/bin" "C:/Users/nikit/AppData/Roaming/cabal/bin" "C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/ghc.8.6.5/tools/ghc-8.6.5/bin" "C:/tools/msys64" "C:/Users/nikit/bin" "C:/Users/nikit/.emacs.d/bin" "c:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/Emacs/tools/emacs/libexec/emacs/26.3/x86_64-w64-mingw32"))

 (config

  (envfile)

  (elc-files . 0)

  (modules :completion company ivy :ui doom doom-dashboard doom-quit fill-column hl-todo indent-guides modeline nav-flash ophints (popup +all +defaults) pretty-code treemacs unicode vc-gutter vi-tilde-fringe window-select workspaces zen :editor (evil +everywhere) file-templates fold multiple-cursors rotate-text snippets :emacs dired electric ibuffer vc :term term :checkers syntax spell grammar :tools (eval +overlay) (lookup +docsets) magit :lang data emacs-lisp javascript markdown (org +dragndrop +present) sh :config (default +bindings +smartparens))

  (packages . "<(void-function sp-point-in-string)>")

  (elpa "n/a")

  (unpin . "<(void-function sp-point-in-string)>")))