Error running google-app-engine demo

Question

I have installed Google application engine following instructions here: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/installing.html

However, running dev_appserver.cmd script causes strange errors:

/C/Program Files/appengine-java-sdk-1.3.5/bin/dev_appserver.cmd: line 1: @java:
command not found
/C/Program Files/appengine-java-sdk-1.3.5/bin/dev_appserver.cmd: line 2: com.goo
gle.appengine.tools.KickStart: command not found
/C/Program Files/appengine-java-sdk-1.3.5/bin/dev_appserver.cmd: line 3: com.goo
gle.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerMain: command not found

Same thing happens on WindowsXP 32bit and Windows7 64bit, when running using Windows dos prompt window, and under GNU bash, version 3.1.0(3)-release (i686-pc-msys) shell.

Environment variables:

APP_ENGINE_HOME=/C/Program Files/appengine-java-sdk-1.3.5
JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_16

Any suggestions what maybe wrong?

Answer 1

I highly doubt that the Bash shell is capable of understanding the .cmd script syntax.

If you want to use a Bash shell, you should be able to run dev_appserver.sh, which is bundled with the SDK as well as the .cmd version.