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Leiningen works well on Windows. Look for discussion of lein.bat in Leiningen's README.

I spent several days attempting to get this working some time ago. lein.bat did not work for me. I don't remember what didn't work and I don't know if the situation has changed, but I don't want to open that can of worms again in the near future.

Counter-rant: what is it about Windows users that make them so much more predisposed to complain on the Internet than file bug reports?

This is absolutely true.

I think it's a cultural difference within the Windows development community. I've made maybe two bug reports to Microsoft related to .NET or SQLServer in the past 8 years. Everything else was either already reported and being fixed in the next 2-3 years or was reported and written off as "you are on your own - we're not fixing it". I've had similar experiences with big proprietary Windows frameworks like DevExpress. Unfortunately at this point I don't think it's changing because it's what everyone expects.

After finding the nth response like this it becomes apparent that it's easier to just find a work around and complain rather than continue to bash your head into the wall.

Hopefully Windows users will learn to contribute and report bugs in community driven development someday...

Because have you ever tried to file a bug report with MS?

That's not really fair, there are some great teams in MS. My impression is that the difficulty of communicating with anyone useful correlates pretty well with how enterprisey the product is.

I'm a Linux user. This is just my work machine.

I have everything running on windows in msys/bash/emacs with lein and cmd.exe with lein.bat. But I also have all the appropriate GNU tools installed and working enough to build with gcc/g++. So my install is relatively complete and probably not typical considering the time it took to get to this point.

I ran into problems where lein.bat didn't work in powershell or msys. This is commonly the case so I didn't think it warranted any bug reports. It did take some additional effort but it was similar to the effort required to get just about anything working in clojure.

For the record my take is this is a Microsoft problem. They need a packaging system that works and is built with all the crazy native windows development quirks in mind. See http://coapp.org/

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