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Xiki on Windows: 'xiki' not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file

Being thrilled by all the nice and promissing screencasts, I followed the guides to install Xiki, summarized as:

  1. Download/install Ruby
  2. Download DevKit
  3. extract DevKit to (permanent) directory that has no spaces, e.g. C:\Ruby200\devkit
  4. open command window in that directory (shift-left-click, open command window here) and execute:
  5. ruby dk.rb init
  6. ruby dk.rb install
  7. cd ..
  8. git clone git://github.com/trogdoro/xiki.git
  9. cd xiki
  10. gem install bundler
  11. bundle
  12. ruby etc/command/copy_xiki_command_to.rb C:/Ruby200/bin/xiki

Now, Xiki should be installed and opening a new command window and typing 'xiki' should give some output, different from 'not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file'... I verified that 'C:/Ruby200/bin' is on Windows PATH (Windows+R, SystemPropertiesAdvanced --> Environment Variable --> Edit)

I seem to be very close to start using Xiki, just can't get there yet. What could be wrong?

Solution

  • From the Xiki website:

    Supported platforms: MacOS and Linux. Pair with me if you want to see Windows support, support for your text editor, or just to hack on Xiki! (find me at twitter.com/xiki).

    The file in your Ruby directory is not a Windows executable.