cordova-android: gradlew: 'sh' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
Bug Report
Problem
When I run the following command in PowerShell on Windows 10, I get an error:
cordova build android --verbose
=>
...
Running command: C:\MyPath\platforms\android\gradlew cdvBuildDebug -b C:\MyPath\platforms\android\build.gradle
'sh' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Command finished with error code 1: C:\MyPath\platforms\android\gradlew cdvBuildDebug,-b,C:\MyPath\platforms\android\build.gradle
C:\MyPath\platforms\android\gradlew: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output:
'sh' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Error: C:\MyPath\platforms\android\gradlew: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output:
'sh' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
at ChildProcess.whenDone (C:\MyPath\node_modules\cordova-common\src\superspawn.js:135:23)
at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
at ChildProcess.cp.emit (C:\MyPath\node_modules\cross-spawn\lib\enoent.js:34:29)
at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:286:5)
What is expected to happen?
I am able to run this command on Ubuntu (non-WSL) and it successfully finds the correct version of gradlew
. However, in Windows, I think it should find gradlew.bat
.
What does actually happen?
It runs gradlew
on Windows, rather than gradlew.bat
Information
check_reqs.js
locates Android Studio and then gradle in this location:
C:\Program Files\Android\Android Studio\gradle\gradle-4.6\bin\gradle
However, ProjectBuilder.js
shows this:
build (opts) {
var wrapper = path.join(this.root, 'gradlew');
...
It looks to me like there is no attempt to append .bat
to the filename if it’s on Windows. Maybe execa is supposed to append it, but it doesn’t seem to. If I hack this to ‘gradlew.bat’, it builds successfully.
Command or Code
cordova build android --verbose
Environment, Platform, Device
Windows 10
Version information
Cordova 9.0.0 It seems to find Android Studio 3.2.1, although I’m not actually using it.
Checklist
- I searched for existing GitHub issues
- I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
- I included all the necessary information above
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: open
- Created 4 years ago
- Comments: 18 (4 by maintainers)
Found this issue thread while investigating the same " ‘sh’ is not recognized" occurring on Windows 10 after upgrading to cordova-android.
All the above didn’t resolve the issue, and I was at the point of installing the WSL.
And then… it just worked. And the next time… it didn’t.
The difference? I’d opened the emulator, and then closed it.
So it seems, for me at least, when the Android Studio emulator isn’t running, the ‘sh’ error occurs.
Hope that helps anyone else afflicted with this, and maybe @breautek et al root out the cause or at least catch and issue a more meaningful message
I have confirmed “sh” error caused by when emulator not start
Faced this issue on Windows when using device, but it is disconnected, so cordova-android tried to running emulator.
It uses emulator and run that command when
adb devices
returns empty list, so you can runadb devices
and ensure that here is your device (or pre-runned emulator?)Problem is in
apkanalyzer
which is a file inand it is shell script, not cmd…
I think it is a bug in Android SDK. More info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47081004/apkanalyzer-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command But if they aren’t fixing it, it should be work-arounded in cordova-android…
Same result here. With Android Studio open but emulator not running, I get the sh error. Open an emulator and re-build, and the error goes away.
An android emulator has to be running ! phew 6hours later it’s working ❤️
It’s there, I can execute bat files just fine, but the script never tries to.