As long as you have wget, that works fine. Only problem I've found so far is that "lein new app" followed by "lein check" throws an error, but it looks like people are on the case.
https://github.com/technomancy/leiningen/issues/863 On Saturday, March 9, 2013 11:24:04 AM UTC, Jonathan Fischer Friberg wrote: > > My experience: > > 1. Download lein.bat > 2. Run it > > Jonathan > > > > On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 10:23 AM, BJG145 <benmag...@gmail.com <javascript:> > > wrote: > >> Perhaps this general anti-Windows attitude is what Windows-based >> newcomers to Clojure find off-putting... >> >> >> On Saturday, March 9, 2013 3:55:59 AM UTC, James Ashley wrote: >>> >>> Since I've seen a few recent posts about this experience, I figured I'd >>> share mine: >>> >>> 0a) Install cygwin. I don't understand how any programmer stuck using >>> windows can get by without it >>> 1) Install the Oracle JDK >>> 1a) Add javac to my PATH (I added a symbolic link to javac.exe inside >>> cygwin in a directory that was already in my >>> PATH: ~/bin) >>> 2) Download the lein "install" script as text from the leiningen home >>> page. >>> 3) Copy it over to my cygwin directory >>> 4) Search/replace to replace the HTML entities with the real thing. I >>> think this was a matter of & and > >>> 5) It was already executable, so just run it (naming it lein.sh rather >>> than lein.bat was important). I got errors about >>> certificates and permissions. They mentioned instructions about setting >>> up an environment variable (something >>> about something like `export DOWNLOAD="curl --trusting %1"`...that >>> wasn't it, but it was along the same lines). >>> I believe that it's some weirdness in the account settings (I have other >>> issues along the same lines in totally >>> unrelated packages), but I suppose I could have just installed some >>> horrible virus. Oh, well. >>> 6) Create a new project >>> 7) Change project.clj to use clojure 1.5 >>> 8) `lein repl` inside cygwin didn't work correctly. CLASSPATH was all >>> windows-style, which confused cygwin. So >>> basic clojure.core pieces weren't found. >>> 8a) I suspect I could have set up, say, powershell, to make this work. >>> But that's stupid, and I don't have time >>> to waste on it. >>> 9) nrepl-jack-in inside emacs worked fine. >>> 9a) I'm using an init.el from other systems that already have clojure >>> set up. But there isn't anything fancy or >>> special or customized about it. Just standard configuration stuff that >>> I've found on bare-minimal blog posts >>> 10) Add a symlink to lein in ~/bin. >>> >>> I guess that probably looks big and scary. Windows users are used to a >>> pretty GUI that they ignore and click >>> "Next" a lot. I dont have a lot of sympathy. >>> >>> I haven't done anything meaningful here at all. But the bare-bones part >>> of the installation process Just Worked. >>> >>> Thank you *so* much to all the people who have worked so hard to make >>> this as simple as it is! >>> >>> Respectfully, >>> James >>> >>> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "Clojure" group. >> To post to this group, send email to clo...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with >> your first post. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Clojure" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to clojure+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> >> > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
