inspect that variable exec-path. If your install of lein can be located here you've got a problem, but otherwise add it with (add-to-list exec-path "my/path\to\lein.bat")

@dpsutton yeah the directory was there but not the .bat file, but even after I added it I'm still getting the same error. Same with trying the previous two release versions of cider-nrepl

can you verify that c:\Users/justin/.lein/bin/lein.bat exists?

yes it's there and works from the emacs shell

can you M-x toggle-debug-on-error and then try again

should give a stack trace so we can investigate a little more

i don't think this is related to a particular version of cider but is local to you

Hmm doesn't seem to give much more info:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Could not start nREPL server: The system cannot find the path specified.

")
  signal(error ("Could not start nREPL server: The system cannot find the path specified.
\n"))
  error("Could not start nREPL server: %s" "The system cannot find the path specified.
\n")
  nrepl-server-sentinel(#<process nrepl-server> "exited abnormally with code 1\n")

let me run to lunch and i'll look into this later.

can you run lein repl from the cmd line and verify that it starts up in this project?

thanks for the help in advanced! Yeah I've been doing lein repl and then cider-connect to get around this

so it's not incredibly high priority. I've mostly been using boot for a year which works fine with cider and have just done this workaround whenever working with lein, so it's not an incredibly high priority, just figured i'd get to the bottom of it

wow. that's a long time to work around

sorry about that

;; On Windows, a failed start sends the "finished" event. On Linux it sends
     ;; "exited abnormally with code 1".

Hmm, strange, I'm on windows

yeah that's super bizarre

ok it seems that my .lein/profiles.clj isn't being loaded

ahh

how did you figure that out?

the latest cider-nrepl snapshot is used no matter what i specify there

what do you prefer?

it's best to let them reference each other unless you have a specific objective

oh ok so that's expected behavior then. i'm not picky but the latest if fine i guess, except that I was going to check if the latest version was the issue here

nah

what's in your lein profiles ?

and what made you think it wasn't loaded

profile is just {:user {:plugins [[cider/cider-nrepl "0.14.0"]]}}

ah, yeah you can get rid of that. cider ensures it's matching version gets installed

and the error message references version 15

ok yup

where does the error message reference 15?

Starting nREPL server via "c:/Users/justin/.lein/bin/lein.bat" update-in :dependencies conj ^"[org.clojure/tools.nrepl \^"0.2.12\^" :exclusions [org.clojure/clojure]]^" -- update-in :plugins conj ^"[refactor-nrepl \^"2.3.0-SNAPSHOT\^"]^" -- update-in :plugins conj ^"[cider/cider-nrepl \^"0.15.0-SNAPSHOT\^"]^" -- repl :headless :host ::...
error in process sentinel: nrepl-server-sentinel: Could not start nREPL server: The system cannot find the path specified.


error in process sentinel: Could not start nREPL server: The system cannot find the path specified.

in the plugins there

ok. remove that lein profiles file (or rename it so it's not seen for right now) and try to jack in again

may not be the worst idea to nuke your cider maven directory

~/.m2/repository/cider

and if you can do this in a fresh copy of emacs without many buffers open and see if it's leaving any server buffers open with some more info in them

hmmm so removing the profiles.clj didn't work

be nice to know if we could find out what path can't be found

nor did nuking the cider repo

hmm. bummer

but when i attempted to jack in after nuking the repo, it didn't fetch the cider-nrepl repo again, shouldn't that have happened?

yeah absolutely

you're not on windows 10 by any chance are you?

yup i am

and my longshot hunch is that it's hitting the linux subsystem which is why we are seeing the "exited abnormally with code1". this is a hail mary

or perhaps lein isn't installed there

so it's confused, as it asks if lein is installed, which it is (in windows) and then tries to run the linux command and it's not there

hmmm

no lie, if this is it i'm gonna be pretty stoked at the diagnosis

how are you running emacs

a taskbar shortcut that looks like it's just calling emacs.exe

ok so you're not running it from the cmd line?

nope

hmm i could try compatibility mode for windows 8

do you have the linux subsystem enabled or anything?

not that i'm aware

alright

i have cygwin installed not sure if that could mess with anything

ahhh

i think that could be part of our problem

and the thing that makes me suspicious is that we are getting the "linux" exit code

can you put your exec-path here

maybe the sentiment was correct but instead of linux subsystem we're hitting cygwin

exec-path is a variable defined in `C source code'.
Its value is
("c:/Users/justin/.lein/bin/lein.bat" "c:/Rtools/bin" "c:/Rtools/gcc-4.6.3/bin" "C:/Program Files (x86)/NVIDIA Corporation/PhysX/Common" "C:/tools/ruby215/bin" "C:/ProgramData/Oracle/Java/javapath" "C:/Windows/system32" "C:/Windows" "C:/Windows/System32/Wbem" "C:/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/" "C:/ProgramData/chocolatey/bin" "C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Live/Shared" "C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_20/bin" "C:/Program Files (x86)/Plantronics/Spokes3G/" "C:/Program Files (x86)/Heroku/bin" "C:/Program Files (x86)/git/cmd" "C:/Program Files (x86)/GNU/GnuPG/pub" "C:/bin/strawberry/c/bin" "C:/bin/strawberry/perl/site/bin" "C:/bin/strawberry/perl/bin" "C:/Program Files (x86)/nodejs/" "C:/WINDOWS/system32" "C:/WINDOWS" "C:/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem" "C:/WINDOWS/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/" "C:/Program Files (x86)/Calibre2/" "C:/Program Files (x86)/Skype/Phone/" "C:/Program Files/Git/cmd" "C:/Program Files/TortoiseGit/bin" "C:/Program Files (x86)/Geth" "C:/Users/justin/Anaconda3" "C:/Users/justin/Anaconda3/Scripts" "C:/RailsInstaller/Git/cmd" "C:/RailsInstaller/Ruby2.1.0/bin" "C:/Users/justin/.lein/bin" "C:/Program Files/Java/jre1.8.0_25/bin" "C:/Users/justin/bin" "C:/bin/apache-maven-3.1.1/bin" "C:/Program Files/Boot2Docker for Windows" "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.2.2/bin" "C:/Program Files/R/R-3.2.0/bin/i386" "C:/Users/justin/AppData/Roaming/npm" "C:/Users/justin/AppData/Local/atom/bin" "C:/Program Files/MongoDB/Server/3.0/bin" "C:/Program Files (x86)/Graphviz2.38/bin" "C:/Program Files/Docker Toolbox" "%USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/Microsoft/WindowsApps" "." "c:/ProgramData/chocolatey/lib/Emacs/tools/libexec/emacs/24.4/i686-pc-mingw32")

Original value was 
("." "C:/msys/local/bin" "c:/mingw/bin" "C:/msys/bin" "c:/Windows/system32" "c:/Windows" "c:/Windows/System32/Wbem" "c:/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/" "c:/Program Files (x86)/ATI Technologies/ATI.ACE/Core-Static" "C:/msys/home/Dani/bin" "c:/Program Files (x86)/Bazaar" "c:/msys/home/dani/emacs/emacs-24.4-build/lib-src" "%emacs_dir%/libexec/emacs/24.4/i686-pc-mingw32")

and that would explain why we haven't redownloaded the cider nrepl middleware in maven

alright that may be what's up

the emacs may be a "cygwin" emacs

go look in programdata/chocolatey/lib/emacs and see if there's a non mingw emacs

runemacs.exe or just a plain jane emacs.exe

or conversely, try to install lein in cygwin?

https://chocolatey.org/packages/Emacs

based off of this comment from the above link: > Emacs would play nicer with other cygwin utilities if "~" meant the current user's home directory (Desktop's parent folder), instead of the appdata/roaming folder. Could the next version do this?

ok sweet! the runemacs.exe seems to not be working but will attempt to install lein in cygwin

Wooo got it working!

I think I just upgraded the chocolatey version and that solved it

alternatively programdata/chocolatey/lib/emacs might not have been the correct location and when i ran things from C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\Emacs\tools\bin it just worked. Not sure if this would have worked prior to upgrading

but thanks so much for you help!

I'm really glad it's working