Runtime directory does not exist

[romancitodev]

Summary

On master branch (I tested it only on that branch) even with the HELIX_RUNTIME configured, still trying to fetch the runtime folder from ~/.cargo/bin/runtime.

I followed strictly the guide from https://docs.helix-editor.com/building-from-source.html#configuring-helixs-runtime-files but still not loading correctly.

Reproduction Steps

On Nushell

I tried this:

1. $env.HELIX_RUNTIME: "<path>"
2. hx --health

I expected this to happen:

To have all the grammars loaded

Instead, this happened:
The runtime directly isn't loaded.

Helix log

No response

Platform

Windows

Terminal Emulator

Windows Terminal

Installation Method

source

Helix Version

helix 25.07.1 (0345400)

[gyreas]

can you paste what hx --health returned?

[romancitodev]

Config file: <user>\AppData\Roaming\helix\config.toml
Language file: <user>\AppData\Roaming\helix\languages.toml
Log file: <user>\AppData\Local\helix\helix.log
Runtime directories: <user>\AppData\Roaming\helix\runtime;<user>\AppData\Roaming\helix\runtime;<user>\AppData\Roaming/helix/runtime;\\?\<user>\.cargo\bin\runtime
Runtime directory does not exist: \\?\<user>\.cargo\bin\runtime
System clipboard provider: windows

I replaced the C:\Users\<User> for <user> just for convenience

[the-mikedavis]

The part about .cargo\bin\runtime not existing is normal for from-source installations - it's a default runtime directory. We include the cargo build directory in order to pick up the runtime/ directory in the repository root when running with cargo run.

What is the <user> path where the runtime directory is installed? Also which shell are you using - cmd or powershell, etc.?

[romancitodev]

Im using Nushell, and I loaded all the env vars into the env.nu entry file

[gyreas]

I think there's at least two ways to go about this:

1. create .cargo\bin\runtime including parent folders (f.e. with mkdir -p .cargo\bin\runtime), then copy everything in path\to\helix\src\runtime to .cargo\bin\runtime

2. AppData\Roaming\helix\ seems to correspond to ~/.config/helix on Linux, for that for my setup, I just symlinked path\to\helix\src\runtime to ~/.config/helix/runtime. You can create runtime folder under AppData\Roaming\helix\ (to get AppData\Roaming\helix\runtime) and then copy everything in path\to\helix\src\runtime to it

[romancitodev]

well, I sym-linked the .cargo/bin/runtime to $env.APPDATA/helix/runtime and still not working.

this is the output of hx --health

Config file: <user>\AppData\Roaming\helix\config.toml
Language file: <user>\AppData\Roaming\helix\languages.toml
Log file: <user>\AppData\Local\helix\helix.log
Runtime directories: <user>\AppData\Roaming\helix\runtime;<user>\AppData\Roaming\helix\runtime;<user>\AppData\Roaming/helix/runtime;\\?\<user>\.cargo\bin\runtime
Runtime directory \\?\<user>\.cargo\bin\runtime is symlinked to: <user>\AppData\Roaming\helix\runtime
System clipboard provider: windows

[romancitodev]

I copied all the grammars from $env.APPDATA/helix/runtime into ~/.cargo/bin/runtime and still not working at all.

[sicher]

I'm having a similar problem. Building from source, no grammars are built:

sir@es:~/helix$ hx --health
Config file: /home/sir/.config/helix/config.toml
Language file: /home/sir/.config/helix/languages.toml
Log file: /home/sir/.cache/helix/helix.log
Runtime directories: /home/sir/.config/helix/runtime;/home/sir/.cargo/bin/runtime
Runtime directory does not exist: /home/sir/.config/helix/runtime
Runtime directory is empty: /home/sir/.cargo/bin/runtime
System clipboard provider: termcode

Okay, so:

sir@es:~/helix$ hx -g fetch
Fetching 260 grammars
...
sir@es:~/helix$ hx -g build
Building 260 grammars
260 grammars built now
...

Now ~/.config/helix/runtime/grammars is full of .so files.

But there is still no higlighting:

sir@es:~/helix$ hx --health
Config file: /home/sir/.config/helix/config.toml
Language file: /home/sir/.config/helix/languages.toml
Log file: /home/sir/.cache/helix/helix.log
Runtime directories: /home/sir/.config/helix/runtime;/home/sir/.cargo/bin/runtime
Runtime directory is empty: /home/sir/.cargo/bin/runtime
System clipboard provider: termcode

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