#764: IDEasy not working properly in CMD (#784)

Author: KianRolf

CHANGELOG.adoc

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ This file documents all notable changes to https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy[IDE
 
 Release with new features and bugfixes:
 
+* https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/764[#764]: IDEasy not working properly in CMD
 * https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/issues/754[#754]: Again messages break processable command output
 
 The full list of changes for this release can be found in https://github.com/devonfw/IDEasy/milestone/16?closed=1[milestone 2024.12.001].

cli/src/main/java/com/devonfw/tools/ide/tool/ToolCommandlet.java

@@ -471,6 +471,21 @@ protected void createStartScript(Path targetDir, String binary, boolean backgrou
       }
       assert (Files.exists(binFolder));
     }
+    if (this.context.getSystemInfo().isWindows()) {
+      Path batchFile = binFolder.resolve(getName() + ".bat");
+      String batchFileContentStart = "@echo off\nsetlocal\nset SCRIPT_DIR=%~dp0\nstart \"\" \"%SCRIPT_DIR%";
+      String batchFileContentEnd = "\" ";
+      if (background) {
+        batchFileContentEnd += " %*";
+      }
+      try {
+        Files.writeString(batchFile, batchFileContentStart + binary + batchFileContentEnd);
+      } catch (IOException e) {
+        throw new RuntimeException(e);
+      }
+      assert (Files.exists(batchFile));
+      context.getFileAccess().makeExecutable(batchFile);
+    }
     Path bashFile = binFolder.resolve(getName());
     String bashFileContentStart = "#!/usr/bin/env bash\n\"$(dirname \"$0\")/";
     String bashFileContentEnd = "\" $@";