Server extract fails on Windows 11 Powershell because it tries to use gzip

[dyskette]

Hi 👋

It looks like my installation of codeium in neovim cannot extract the downloaded server gzip file. I saw in another issue that it is supposed to find out if it's currently using powershell and in that case use a script to extract the downloaded archive, but in my case it just fails with the following message:

Error executing vim.schedule lua callback: ...ta/Local/nvim-data/lazy/plenary.nvim/lua/plenary/job.lua:108:
gzip: Executable not found                                                                                                                                    stack traceback:
...ta/Local/nvim-data/lazy/plenary.nvim/lua/plenary/job.lua:108: in function 'job'
...ata/Local/nvim-data/lazy/codeium.nvim/lua/codeium/io.lua:305: in function 'gunzip'
...Local/nvim-data/lazy/codeium.nvim/lua/codeium/update.lua:130: in function 'unpack'
...Local/nvim-data/lazy/codeium.nvim/lua/codeium/update.lua:149: in function 'callback'
...ata/Local/nvim-data/lazy/codeium.nvim/lua/codeium/io.lua:395: in function 'fn'
vim/_editor.lua:351: in function <vim/_editor.lua:350>
stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'error'
...ta/Local/nvim-data/lazy/plenary.nvim/lua/plenary/job.lua:108: in function 'job'
...ata/Local/nvim-data/lazy/codeium.nvim/lua/codeium/io.lua:305: in function 'gunzip'
...Local/nvim-data/lazy/codeium.nvim/lua/codeium/update.lua:130: in function 'unpack'
...Local/nvim-data/lazy/codeium.nvim/lua/codeium/update.lua:149: in function 'callback'
...ata/Local/nvim-data/lazy/codeium.nvim/lua/codeium/io.lua:395: in function 'fn'
vim/_editor.lua:351: in function <vim/_editor.lua:350>

I am using Windows 11 and Powershell Core 7.4.3

$PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.4.3
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.4.3
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.22631
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

I checked if maybe I had some gzip command, and it looks like that is not the case:

Get-Command gzip
Get-Command: The term 'gzip' is not recognized as a name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or executable program.
Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

I checked in neovim's cmdline trying to find gzip :lua print(vim.fn.executable("gzip")) and it returns 0.

My installation is pretty straightforward, it's basically the same as in the README with the cmp source configured.

return {
	"Exafunction/codeium.nvim",
	dependencies = {
		"nvim-lua/plenary.nvim",
		"hrsh7th/nvim-cmp",
	},
	config = function()
		require("codeium").setup({})
	end,
}

For now, in my local installation I did a small change to fix it.

diff --git a/lua/codeium/io.lua b/lua/codeium/io.lua
index 9f447df..8b1796d 100644
--- a/lua/codeium/io.lua
+++ b/lua/codeium/io.lua
@@ -301,7 +301,8 @@ function M.generate_uuid()
 end

 function M.gunzip(path, callback)
-       if M.executable("gzip") then
+       local gzipAvailable = vim.fn.executable("gzip") == 1
+       if gzipAvailable then
                M.job({
                        "gzip",
                        "-d",

Cheers

[dyskette]

BTW, while I'm not too familiar with lua and vim functions, I was testing in the cmdline how lua evaluates vim.fn.executable in an if. It looks like it results in a unintuitive result on Windows, because when vim.fn.executable returns 0 it gets evaluated as true and 1 gets evaluated as false. I think it's necessary to force the comparison to the expected result, e.g. vim.fn.executable("gzip") == 1.

If I'm wrong, just ignore my comment, but I saw others if statements relying on vim.fn.executable as well that probably need some review.

[wr9dg17]

I solved it by enabling gzip as executable from CMD. You can install cygwin and add to PATH. Also you can install it with following command: choco install cygwin