V: Pls give more info about installation in windows.

[vinodvinu]

Hi,
I love this language at first sight. But I am not sure v is installed properly or not. I did as you said in the installation note. I found an exe file named "v" in my users folder. But I can't run any code(ex: println("hello')) in that cmd window. Its saying that C:\Users\MyName\ is not recognized as blah blah.
So please give more clarity on this. And please tell me how to check if i installed it correctly.
Note : I have added the v.exe path to my path. But it is not working. Do i miss something ?

[dhonx]

Hai @vinodvinu You can ask for help on discord.... https://discord.gg/n7c74HM

[spytheman]

@vinodvinu Please, can you paste a screenshot, or an exact copy of the error message that you get?
Also can you run it with:
v.exe --version ?

[nsauzede]

I guess that maybe a full command line + exact error message could help to begin with ?
Do you use MSYS2 ? Cygwin ? mingw32 ? MSVC ?

[Larpon]

... or WSL?

[dhonx]

We need the screenshot and PATH env var

[vinodvinu]

This is the screen shot of Env variables

And this is the screenshot of "v.exe --version"

[vinodvinu]

And this is the screenshot of "v.exe" s command window.

[vinodvinu]

I am very much impressed about the speedy responses i got from here. Thank you all and sorry for delay in my reply.

[vinodvinu]

OMG, i think its my fault. After i edited the path to "C:\Users\Vinod Chandran\v" its worked. Now, i can see the version printed on cmd.

This is the result.
But still i cant run code in v.exe's cmd window.

[Larpon]

Have you tried running just v.exe now that you got it to print the version? You should get a >>> prompt where you can write code. Or try writing your code in a test.v in same directory as the compiler and compule and run it with v.exe run test.v?

[vitalyster]

1) v.exe should be in v subdirectory, not in your user directory
2) looks like v currently have issues with spaces in working directory, move it to another directory without spaces for now

[vinodvinu]

Have you tried running just v.exe now that you got it to print the version? You should get a >>> prompt where you can write code. Or try writing your code in a test.v in same directory as the compiler and compule and run it with v.exe run test.v?

Thanks a lot. Now everything works perfect. Now i want to learn more about V. Please tell me where to start.

[Larpon]

No problem.
I started here: https://vlang.io/docs
Good luck ✌

[vinodvinu]

Thanks. Bookamrked.