Bad experience installing OpenCode for Windows

[mmc41]

Description

Lots of bugs:

1. "curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash" won't run in powershell (but do work in old windows command promot)
2. "curl -fsSL https://opencode.ai/install | bash" installs opencode inside WSL - not in windows. Get "opencode" not found if run inside windows command prompt or poweshell (I had to install using npm instead to get it working in Windows)
3. Exiting a running opencode with Ctrl-C does not work. The console app close and the user gets back ito the shell but opencode still runs and outputs strange characters into the shell.

OpenCode version

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Steps to reproduce

Install on windows 11 PC as outlined above.

Screenshot and/or share link

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Operating System

Windows 11

Terminal

Windows Terminal

[github-actions[bot]]

This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

• #5223: Can't open opencode after install (Windows 11 installation issues)
• #2999: Provide means to disable Ctrl-C (Ctrl-C handling on Windows causing crashes)
• #3343: Cannot paste multiple lines in Windows Terminal and VSCode+Powershell (Windows Terminal/PowerShell issues)
• #5121: Winget installation option for windows (Alternative Windows installation method)

Feel free to ignore if none of these address your specific case.

[johnem-msft]

EDIT DISREGARD, THE BELOW WASA FOR PS7 in WINDOWS NOT WSL

For PowerShell, I was doing: winget install OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS npm install -g opencode-ai

Working great on one machine - on another: panic(main thread): Segmentation fault at address 0x3 oh no: Bun has crashed; This indicates a bug in Bun, not your code - after any commands

Fixed:

• winget remove OpenJS.NodeJS.LTS
• install official nodejs from nodejs.org
• npm version after that was: npm --version: 11.6.2
• npm install -g opencode-ai

Everything seems to be working fine on the 2nd install now.

[rekram1-node]

~~I mean curl install wont work in powershell ever right? Maybe it works it you are using git bash but it isnt for powershell.~~

edit: nvm

[rekram1-node]

the windows character bug is unrelated to install and we have someone working on it

[jrgleason]

Similar experience it is especially annoying coming from Claude code where I used ctrl+c to navigate all the time. I really appreciate your work though most of it is great.

[rekram1-node]

@jrgleason wdym by ctrl+c to navigate?

[johnem-msft]

I mean curl install wont work in powershell ever right? Maybe it works it you are using git bash but it isnt for powershell.

Curl works fine in PowerShell

In PS 5 it's an alias for Invoke-WebRequest per get-alias curl curl -> Invoke-WebRequest

In PS 7 curl is redesigned and works like regular curl in bash - eg: curl -L aka.ms/whatsmyip

So ... for any "Windows" scenarios here it's important to understand if we are in WSL (v1/v2?) or PS5 or PS7

$psversiontable (echo $psversiontable if you wish)

@mmc41 it would be good if you could tell us more about your environment.

Taking a closer look - I see you are piping to bash ... it seems like this is Linux/WSL and not particularly "Windows"?

What do we have for? cat /etc/rel

In PowerShell - what do you have for: wsl --version?

Note - I installed via the method you described fine in Ubuntu22/WSL2 and it works great WSL version: 2.6.3.0

Note2: Opencode works fine in PS7 w. NodeJS installed :)))

[rekram1-node]

Oh that's good to know I'm windows ignorant, thanks!

[mmc41]

@johnem-msft I am using PowerShell 7.5.4 on Windows 11 @rekram1-node Thanks for looking at this.

I should add a general note, that I see it as critical for user adoption of any software, that a) That the software can be installed - I.e. The install instructions work: Failed - Some the of instructions on "https://opencode.ai/" does not work on windows, so the instructions need to be changed (perhaps be made OS dependent). b) That the software can start - OK! Good! c) That the software work reasonable well - ? (have not tried enough to be sure yet). d) That the software can be stopped: Failed (Ctrl-C does not work on Windows).