How can I open Scilab in my Windows console?

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How can I open Scilab in my Windows console? I have it installed and I see it when I search in the search bar but I don't know how to run it inside my console. I would like to use it inside my integrated Visual Studio Code terminal.

What does this have to do with PowerShell? You can multiple consoles you choose in VSCode via settings and task customization as documented in the VSCode help files. [How do I ask a good question? - Help Center - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask) ... [How to create a Minimal, Reproducible Example - Help Center - Stack Overflow](https://stackoverflow.com/help/minimal-reproducible-example) ... [Why is "Can someone help me?" not an actual question? - Meta Stack Overflow](https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/284236/why-is-can-someone-help-me-not-an-actual-question) — postanote, Apr 26 '20 at 20:47

postanote · Accepted Answer · 2020-04-26T21:41:10.323

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I have no idea what Scilab is, never seen it, never used it. However as for the VScode terminal settings, this is a well-documented thing from Microsoft...

User and Workspace Settings

Integrated Terminal

... and has been covered before on Stackoverflow.

As per the accepted answer shows:

There is a way to make this happens with these steps by installing an extension:

Find an extension called Shell launcher and install it. Reload VS Code if you want or after you finished all steps.

Go to Files --> Preferences --> Settings and this will open settings.json file and you then insert this (you can edit this to your heart's content):

Code:

"shellLauncher.shells.windows": [
    {
        "shell": "C:\\Windows\\<sysnative>\\cmd.exe",
        "label": "cmd"
    },
    {
        "shell": "C:\\Windows\\<sysnative>\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe",
        "label": "PowerShell"
    },
    {
        "shell": "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe",
        "label": "Git bash"
    },
    {
        "shell": "C:\\Windows\\<sysnative>\\bash.exe",
        "label": "WSL Bash"
    }
]

Update

I just took a look on Youtube for Scilab, and it has it's own completely stand-alone GUI console. You cannot run a GUI console in VScode, only terminal-like consoles, so, if it does have a cmd.exe -like, bash-like console, then the above approach applies.

edited Apr 26 '20 at 21:41

answered Apr 26 '20 at 20:47

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It has something called "scilab-6.1.0 (64-bit) Console" which opens the console version of that program. I updated the `settings.json` by adding: ```json { "shell": "C:\\Program Files\\scilab-6.1.0\\bin\\Scilex.exe", "label": "Scilab-cli" }, ``` But after reopening VSC I still don't see it while trying to set new terminal – John Apr 26 '20 at 21:43
Nvm just got it to work. But after trying to execute a script that loads a few libraries it gives me an error that it cannot load some `.dll` libraries `--> exec("./test.sce") --> // load the blocks library and the simulation engine --> loadXcosLibs(); loadScicos(); at line 2 of executed file E:\asdasasd\test.sce Impossible to load scicos-cli.dll library` – John Apr 26 '20 at 21:46
In most cases like this, you may need to add the Scilab item to your system path and ps paths – postanote Apr 26 '20 at 21:49
I open the command line version of Scilab separately and it has the same error which I guess comes in pair with using the nonGUI version of that program as I tried to use `xcos` which is Scilabs version of Simulink (like in Matlab) and that is based on GUI – John Apr 26 '20 at 21:49
Good to know, you can repro this issue outside VSCode. So, my path statement above may be moot, as Scilab appears to have this catch22. – postanote Apr 26 '20 at 21:54
That exact library is located in `C:\Program Files\scilab-6.1.0\bin` so I added exactly that path to Enviroment Variable->PATH and it still shows that error: `--> loadXcosLibs(); loadScicos(); at line 2 of executed file E:\asdasasd\test.sce Impossible to load scicos-cli.dll library` – John Apr 26 '20 at 21:56
Looks like is simply doesn't want to display anything GUI related. I asked it so draw a simple plot and it refused. But your way of adding it to VSC terminal works. Thank you very much I'm sure I will use it in the future with something else! Thanks! – John Apr 26 '20 at 22:07

How can I open Scilab in my Windows console?

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