Evaluate Windows support

Question

Evaluate Windows support

robo9k opened this issue 10 years ago · comments

Right now no effort is made to build this crate on Windows.

One would need to evaluate the requirements (building/downloading/installing libmagic) and possibilities for continous integration.

robot9001 · Answer 1 · Mon Jan 26 2015 00:11:33 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

AppVeyor provides a free plan for OSS projects.
It does not seem to support Rust directly, so one'd have to install Rust/Cargo manually.

robot9001 · Answer 2 · Mon Jan 26 2015 00:20:37 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It might be possible to use Cygwin to install gcc, pkg-config, autotools etc. to build libmagic. I do not know which of Cygwin, MinGW (or MSYS) works best with Rust. Having a dependency on Cygwin DLLs should not matter much for CI.