[warning ] Could not create symlink: meltano.exe not present in C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310 > I've uninstalled and reinstalled pipx and meltano multiple times and ensured there's no symlink error in the pipx list > meltano.exe, but pipx isn't adding meltano.exe to python\python310. Any ideas?

Hi @Ian OLeary. Have you tried running

pipx ensurepath

?

When I install Meltano via pipx I usually see

meltano.exe

in the following directory c:\Users\[my username]\.local\bin

@BuzzCutNorman That's where my meltano.exe is too, but how do i make meltano fix the symlink? I've tried running pipx ensurepath as well

Are you using a

venv

and

pipx

at the same time? If you are try deactivating the

venv

and running

meltano --verison

just as a test to see if it runs alright via

pipx

.

It returns 'meltano, version 3.20' both inside and outside the project venv

That is good to hear, lets keep the

venv

deactivated for now. If you would please get out of you current project folder and lets try creating a new project let say

meltano init test-project

.

done

Nice, so we have a new project. Did you get any error messages when it was created?

Meltano will create the project, but again will throw that warning about the symlinks

Thank you for that info. I appreciate you working through this with me. Were you granted admin right on your machine like you requested ? If not that is fine just helps me to try and duplicate this on my end.

Yes - so basically they set up an admin account (didn't give me admin credentials on my main account) which I sign onto with ".\Admin"- so I went and installed python/pip/pipx/meltano as administrator on that profile since when I run cmd as admin it uses that "Admin" user and not my "Ian" user. I tried creating a project in there too and it's giving the same error. So the error is really "meltano.exe not present in C:\Users\AdminUserProfile\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310"

I was working a while back to setup a Meltano server on windows that had a shared

pipx

install. You can do this by specifying a central folder you have given right to all users to. here is the documentation. I got it to work once I think it might solve the issue if it doesn't. There is a way to create the symlink manually if you have admin access which you do. A true fix would come via PR to Meltano.

PR to Meltano?

A change to the code of Meltano via a github pull request or PR.

gotcha

Ha I was typing this up but you already got it. nice work. The command for creating a symbolic link from the command line is here Creating Symbolic Links. I think you would want to point it to

C:\Users\[your login]\.local\bin\meltano.exe

. That is a total guess. You might have to play around with that a bit. You can see where the symlink is pointed with this command from inside a meltano project folder

dir .\.meltano\run\ -recurse -force | ?{$_.LinkType} | select FullName,LinkType,Target

.

the command I used was

mklink ".\Python\Python310\symlinkname.exe" ".\Python\Python310\Scripts\meltano.exe"

I thought you might like to you know I was able to recreate the issue you were having on my windows test environment. Thanks again for taking the time to go through the steps.