phantomjs always giving parse error on windows [duplicate]

Question

this might sound like a stupid issue but I can't seem to figure out at all why

I downloaded the windows binary and following the quickstart instructions and tried using the examples, but whatever and whenever I type anything in the console I always get "parse error"

I tried:

phantom hello.js

phantomjs hello.js

and some of the example scripts, and I always get 'parse error'

the hello.js file simply has this

console.log('Hello, world!');

phantom.exit();

I have no clue what's wrong... any help would be appreciated...I'm sure this will turn out to be something stupid so I appreciate your time! thanks

Answer 1

Add 'phantomjs-1.5.0-win32-static' folder path to your system environment variable path and try phantomjs --version in new cmd prompt. If you can able to get the version correctly then you can execute your .js as below

phantomjs hello.js

Answer 2

Your shoudnt run the phantomjs.exe file directly. you have to run it from CMD!