Windows binary builds are missing

[Neustradamus]

@hoehermann: Can you add Windows binary files for all versions?

[hoehermann]

Update: I created the purple-signal project. Check its readme to see the current state.

No, I won't. Sorry.

• I do not use Windows – builds would be untested.
• Compared do Linux, setting up a build system suitable for developing pidgin/purple plugins on Windows is quite a hassle.
• I do not even know whether signald actually works on Windows.

In case anyone wants to look into this, they are welcome.

[EionRobb]

I took a stab at this, but signald is hard-wired to use Unix sockets. It should be fairly straight-forward to switch it to use TCP sockets, but that would need a larger rewrite of the plugin than what I have spare time for at the moment

(Also, I added this plugin to the list of Pidgin's third party plugins)

[rasa]

I took a stab at this, but signald is hard-wired to use Unix sockets.

Windows supposedly now has support for Unix sockets. See
https://unwcf.com/posts/unix-sockets/ as well as:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-windows/

[EionRobb]

That's pretty neat. It'll be a little tricky to write support for that with mingw but not terrible.

Unfortunately that doesn't help on the Java side of the fence. Java needs to add support for unix sockets before the signald jar will work.

[hoehermann]

I tried to tackle this problem by eliminating the need for sockets completely by embedding the Java implementation in the C library over here: https://github.com/hoehermann/purple-signal It works on Linux, but crashes on Windows. So far, I gained nothing but experience. In case someone is masochistic enough to debug the JVM internals, he or she is welcome to look into it.

[hoehermann]

Okay, apparently I am the masochist. Turned out, it was a type error in untyped code. Fairly easy to catch if you know what to look for, but it took me an awful amount of time. Now hoehermann/purple-signal@0967a40 exists and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60688140/ exists, too. There might be hope for Windows-users after all. :)

[Neustradamus]

@hoehermann: Thanks, can you look for other softs/libs?

• purple-signal
• purple-gowhatsapp

Can you add builds in /releases sections too?

[hoehermann]

@Neustradamus

Signal (Updated in 2024)

• purple-presage: Uses a different back-end. Due to the ongoing problems with signald, purple-presage is my current daily driver. There is a native windows version.
• purple-signald: No Windows build since signald does not run on Windows. Using Unix sockets through WSL has not been successful as of yet.
• purple-signal: It looked promising, but the API is unstable and upstream has stopped providing Windows binaries.

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• purple-gowhatsapp (now whatsmeow): I am already offering builds for Linux and Windows.