Question:
So I am trying to run gulp on our build server but keep getting the error above. Everything works fine if I log into the build server with my user account as I installed gulp globally under my account however when Jenkins runs my powershell script it fails with the error:
The term ‘gulp’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet error
So I tried to install globally in my script so that it installs with whatever user Jenkins uses.
Then I added npm -g ls to The powershell script and found that it is installed globally under a system user:
C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\npm >
gulp@3.9.0
Since I am still getting the error I took the advice from this post and added a path variable with the directory above however still the same error.
Anyone have ideas on what I can try next? Im stumped as to why it is not working.
Answer:
Make sure the directory containing gulp.exe is contained in the $env:PATH environment variable. You can update the machine-wide PATH variable with the [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable() method.
Let’s imagine the path to the gulp executable is C:\Program Files\gulp\bin\gulp.exe
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# Directory containing exe $GulpFolderPath = 'C:\program files\gulp\bin' # Retrieve user-agnostic PATH environment variable value $CurrentEnvPath = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable('PATH','Machine') # Check if PATH already contains gulp if($CurrentEnvPath -split ';' -notcontains $GulpFolderPath) { # if not, update it $NewEnvPath = $CurrentEnvPath,$GulpFolderPath -join ';' [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable('PATH',$NewEnvPath,'Machine') } |