[BUG]

[DipakTated]

When I build my project and run,
Playwright throws error.

I went to playwright.cmd and removed third line "if not. Defined" and after that it starts working.
Why so?

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  // Please include a snippet of HTML that shows an example of the content
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[DipakTated]

On further analysis, i see that when u run cmd in programfiles x86 folder, causes this issue.

[mxschmitt]

Which version of Windows are you using? Could you give us more information about the error, screenshots or logs and how you run it?

[DipakTated]

Just copy . playwright folder into c:/ program files x86 folder and go inside . playwright folder and run playwright.cmd.

It throws error.

Remove open brackets from if not defined and make it all in one line and then run again. It works

[DipakTated]

Windows 10 am using,64 bit

[mxschmitt]

It's not intended to run the playwright.cmd manually. I guess you are using Playwright for .NET? For that there is the ps1 script which you should use to invoke the Playwright CLI.

[DipakTated]

I am using .PS1 only to invoke it, but it throws error code 255 during install playwright.

When I debugged, i found root cause at cmd file

[mxschmitt]

And which error do you get if you execute the CMD file? Why did you decide to remove the specific line?

Would love to understand why it works for other people but not on your machine.

[DipakTated]

C:\Program Files (x86)\Fluke\OneQA.playwright\node\win32_x64>.\playwright.cmd
\Fluke\OneQA.playwright\node\win32_x64\node.exe was unexpected at this time.

[DipakTated]

Its a known issue with paranthesis in Windows OS with program files x86 folder : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12097416/launching-32-bit-executable-from-command-prompt-in-win-7-64-bit-os

[mxschmitt]

Could you try replacing the playwright.cmd content with the following file?

We made a fix in #19801 which at least for me fixes it with your repro instructions.

(Will get released in version 1.30)

[DipakTated]

No, with that fix, it throws further error as follows:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Fluke\OneQA.playwright\node\win32_x64>.\playwright.cmd
node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:988
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Fluke\OneQA.playwright\node\win32_x64\package\lib\cli\cli.js'
←[90m at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:985:15)←[39m
←[90m at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:833:27)←[39m
←[90m at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:81:12)←[39m
←[90m at node:internal/main/run_main_module:22:47←[39m {
code: ←[32m'MODULE_NOT_FOUND'←[39m,
requireStack: []
}

[DipakTated]

My solution is as follows:

@echo off
setlocal
if not defined PLAYWRIGHT_NODEJS_PATH set PLAYWRIGHT_NODEJS_PATH=%~dp0\node.exe
"""%PLAYWRIGHT_NODEJS_PATH%""" "%~dp0....\package\lib\cli\cli.js" %*

[DipakTated]

you just need to remove circular braces and make those in one line. That solves the problem