Building the generator on plain Windows fails

[OmarHawk]

Overview of the issue

Building the generator on Windows runs into a failure. Running npm ci produces the following output:

> chmod +x dist/cli/jhipster.cjs || true

Der Befehl "chmod" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder
konnte nicht gefunden werden.
Der Befehl "true" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder
konnte nicht gefunden werden.
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path C:\Users\jwedding\git\markant\generator-jhipster
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c npm run build

Motivation for or Use Case

Reproduce the error

Related issues

#25567

Suggest a Fix

JHipster Version(s)

JHipster configuration

Entity configuration(s) entityName.json files generated in the .jhipster directory

Browsers and Operating System

Windows 10

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[mshima]

We need to chmod the binary in posix platform.
Any idea?

[OmarHawk]

Maybe theres an abstraction npm package as with rimraf for rm -rf?

[OmarHawk]

Maybe something like this works: https://github.com/shelljs/shx . Haven't actually checked it out, but at least sounds like an option.