hyperledger fabric - Cannot run peer because cannot init crypto

Question

I want to run the facbar-samples on windows10,reference the http://hyperledger-fabric.readthedocs.io/en/latest/write_first_app.html but get the error:

$ ./startFabric.sh
orderer.example.com is up-to-date
couchdb is up-to-date
peer0.org1.example.com is up-to-date
cli is up-to-date
2017-07-05 08:17:06.550 UTC [main] main -> ERRO 001 Cannot run peer because 
cannot init crypto, missing /etc/hyperledger/fabric/C:/Program 
Files/Git/etc/hyperledger/msp/users/[email protected]/msp folder

some that I have installed:

$ npm -v
5.0.4
$ node -v
v6.11.0
$ curl -V
curl 7.54.0 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) libcurl/7.54.0 OpenSSL/1.0.2l zlib/1.2.11 
libssh2/1.8.0 nghttp2/1.23.1 librtmp/2.3
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 
pop3s rtmp rtsp scp sftp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: IPv6 Largefile SSPI Kerberos SPNEGO NTLM SSL libz TLS-SRP HTTP2 
HTTPS-proxy Metalink

$ docker --version
Docker version 17.06.0-ce, build 02c1d87

$ docker-compose --version
docker-compose version 1.14.0, build c7bdf9e3

$ git --version
git version 2.13.1.windows.2

Please help ,Thanks.

Answer 1

This is a problem with mingw64 which is messing with the filepaths. The solution is to set the following environment variable before running startFabric.sh :

export MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1

A fix was just submitted to fabric to do that for you so if you pull the latest version from the master branch it should work. Otherwise, just set that variable and that should solve your problem.

Arnaud