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Spoon is not supported on this hosttype : MINGW64_NT-6.1

I'm trying to open entaho Spoon on a Windows 7 machine, but it's not openning. When I run SpoonDebug, the SpoonDebug.txt brings me this error:

Spoon is not supported on this hosttype : MINGW64_NT-6.1

What should I do? when I run Git Bash, MINGW64_NT is the name on the header of the program.

Solution

  • The error is you are trying to run spoon.sh on windows 7 using cygwin or any of shell emulator for windows. This output as you wrote:

    MINGW64_NT-6.1

    Is just output from sh file - output of 

    uname -s

    What actually just happens - spoon.sh make attempt to guess the platform you are using and based on platform name - choose correct swt implementation. Since you are on win7 correct one should be with /win in path. 64 or 86 depending on your core. spoon.sh trying to guess only linux/osx based implementations and will not go to win swt folder.

    So on win should run Spoon.bat for SpoonDebug.bat. spoon.sh only for unix/linux and seems will not guess the win swt even running in shell simulator that able to execute sh files.