Anyone successfully built this project on Windows yet?

[stringTrimmer]

Hello @mrcjkb, I see you're working on #501 and you mentioned on reddit that you don't actually have a windows machine (resorting to Github actions). I've been trying to get the project to build on my Windows 11 machine and have overcome a few stumbling blocks on dependencies (libgpg-error-sys , openssl and mlua-sys). However I'm currently hung up on uzers not compiling. From the crate's readme, it sounds like it might be strictly for Unix? Have you been able to get lux-cli to build completely for Windows?

[mrcjkb]

I've been focusing on the integration test suite (various build backends) so far, and just got them all working with Windows/MSVC yesterday.
This weekend, I hope to start working on building lux-cli for MSVC.

[stringTrimmer]

I have no prior rust/cargo experience so some of this is probably dumb, but If it's of any help to you, here are my notes on building it on my Windows machine:

Notes for building lux-cli (cargo install lux-cli --locked)

1. I have 'Visual Studio Build Tools 2022 -- 17.13.6' installed for use of c/cpp compiler. Includes MSVC redistributable and some other things. I use this to build tree-sitter parsers for nvim too.
2. I use the 'Developer Powershell for Visual Studio' (within Windows Terminal) for all of this since it sets up the environment variables and whatever else MSVC needs to work.
3. Failed on building dependency libgpg-error-sys
   • went to its GitHub page https://github.com/gpg-rs/libgpg-error and found that for Windows you need to install Gpg4Win. After that it worked.
4. Failed do to no OpenSSL lib found on system
   • install vcpkg via tutorial at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vcpkg/get_started/get-started-msbuild?pivots=shell-powershell
   • at step 1.2 use .\bootstrap-vcpkg.bat -disableMetrics to turn off telemetry
   • for step 2 just do 2.2 "Configure the VCPKG_ROOT environment variable" and you are done with this part.
   • install OpenSSL via vcpkg install openssl:x64-windows-static-md
5. Failed on building dependency mlua-sys do to "cannot find LuaJIT using pkg-config"
   • see 2. above to install vcpkg.
   • then do vcpkg install luajit:x64-windows-static-md
   • and $env:LUA_LIB_NAME='lua51'; $env:LUA_LIB = 'C:\<path>\<to>\vcpkg\installed\x64-windows-static-md\lib'
6. Failed on building dependency uzers.
   • I think this crate may be strictly for Unix at least sounds that way in its readme. Might have to change lux to pivot around its use when platform is windows.

[mrcjkb]

@stringTrimmer the mj/push-mrtprpuynwxz branch now builds lux-cli successfully on Windows with MSVC.
You don't need gpg4win (as that requires cygwin, so I removed the signing features from the msvc build).

Edit: Version 0.3.8 has MSVC support.

[stringTrimmer]

I removed both gpg4win and my preinstalled lua (used your readme's recommendation of --features vendored-lua instead for that). As of 0.3.8, it built. Thanks!

Now to see if I can get it to install busted.

[mrcjkb]

You'll still need Lua to run busted.
The lua that lux installs only includes headers and libraries, but no executable, yet.