Stream: ideas

Topic: Windows port via MSYS2

view this post on Zulip Krzysztof Kielak (May 13 2024 at 14:57):

Have anyone tried to compile Roc under MSYS2 on Windows (MSYS2)? I was able to install Rust compiler /w cargo ecosystem that allows me to produce native PE32+ libraries

$ pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-rust
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-rust-1.78.0-1

Total Installed Size:  392.64 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:        0.00 MiB

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view this post on Zulip Krzysztof Kielak (May 13 2024 at 14:59):

$ cat main.rs
fn main() {
    println!("Hello, world!");
}
$ rustc main.rs
$ file main.exe
main.exe: PE32+ executable (console) x86-64, for MS Windows, 20 sections

view this post on Zulip Anton (May 13 2024 at 15:04):

Have anyone tried to compile Roc under MSYS2 on Windows

I don't think so

view this post on Zulip Luke Boswell (May 13 2024 at 15:34):

I am very interested to know how you go with this though. I've been using Roc on windows but just building from source. There are a bunch of issues, but we just need more contributors with Windows machines and experience to really sort them out

view this post on Zulip Krzysztof Kielak (May 13 2024 at 16:58):

compilation went fine up until about 80%, and then failed on missing zig compiler ... so now I'm trying to bring zig into MSYS2 - the latest status is: it does not compile from the source, because does not understand the target named : x86_64-msys ...

view this post on Zulip Krzysztof Kielak (May 13 2024 at 18:11):

I will be investigating and try to compile Roc under MSYS2, but it might take time - I will keep you posted

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