running bower from TeamCity (Windows)

Question

I've got a set of build steps in a project (Team City 9.0c)

One of them is running bower install which is a simple command line execution with no parameters.

Bower is installed on the system (I can run it just fine from the command prompt on the machine) but I get the following error

[10:47:35][Step 2/7] Starting: D:\TeamCity\buildAgent\temp\agentTmp\custom_script8385462966123630321.cmd [10:47:35][Step 2/7] in directory: D:\TeamCity\buildAgent\work\5d43cd6017ab83d4\website\Amaze.Web [10:47:37][Step 2/7] 'bower' is not recognized as an internal or external command, [10:47:37][Step 2/7] operable program or batch file. [10:47:37][Step 2/7] Process exited with code 1 [10:47:37][Step 2/7] Step Bower (Command Line) failed

I've seen this before where PATH is not set to the location of the npm binaries in c:\users\xxxx\roaming\... so the TC user cannot find them, however PATH is correct.

Both npm and grunt work successfully. What could be causing this?

Answer 1

Is the path variable defined a user variable? If so, it should be a system variable which will be used by the TeamCity process.