[Question] Specify winpty.exe via Environment Variable

[hcoona]

Environment details

• OS: Windows 11
• OS version:
• node-pty version:

Issue description

Is it possible to specify winpty.exe full path via Environment Variable? I installed it in MSYS2 but I don't what to expose all bins to my PATH.

[Tyriar]

Why are you asking? winpty should be is shipped with node-pty and it gets imported relatively here:

node-pty/src/windowsPtyAgent.ts

Lines 77 to 89 in efbf8eb

	if (!winptyNative) {
	try {
	winptyNative = require('../build/Release/pty.node');
	} catch (outerError) {
	try {
	winptyNative = require('../build/Debug/pty.node');
	} catch (innerError) {
	console.error('innerError', innerError);
	// Re-throw the exception from the Release require if the Debug require fails as well
	throw outerError;
	}
	}
	}

[hcoona]

I installed is with pnpm and it cannot find winpty automatically.

E:\pnpm-global\5\.pnpm\@[email protected]\node_modules\@homebridge\node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch\lib\windowsPtyAgent.js:79
            term = this._ptyNative.startProcess(file, cols, rows, debug, this._generatePipeName(), conptyInheritCursor);
                                   ^

Error: File not found:
    at new WindowsPtyAgent (E:\pnpm-global\5\.pnpm\@[email protected]\node_modules\@homebridge\node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch\lib\windowsPtyAgent.js:79:36)
    at new WindowsTerminal (E:\pnpm-global\5\.pnpm\@[email protected]\node_modules\@homebridge\node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch\lib\windowsTerminal.js:53:24)
    at Object.spawn (E:\pnpm-global\5\.pnpm\@[email protected]\node_modules\@homebridge\node-pty-prebuilt-multiarch\lib\index.js:30:12)
    at new ISTerm (file:///E:/pnpm-global/5/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@microsoft/inshellisense/build/isterm/pty.js:36:25)
    at Object.spawn (file:///E:/pnpm-global/5/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@microsoft/inshellisense/build/isterm/pty.js:279:12)
    at async render (file:///E:/pnpm-global/5/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@microsoft/inshellisense/build/ui/ui-root.js:16:18)
    at async Command.<anonymous> (file:///E:/pnpm-global/5/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@microsoft/inshellisense/build/commands/root.js:35:5)

Node.js v20.15.0

After I download winpty by myself and added it to PATH, is can run.

And I cannot find winpty.exe anywhere.

[Tyriar]

winpty is definitely compiled after yarn is run (or npm i after #721). Maybe this is an issue with pnpm?