Windows Guide needed

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has anyone got a recent build running on windows 10? A guide with download links to all external dependencies would be really helpful.
I would love to get started with pijul, but need to use windows on my dev machine.

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I would start with installing the latest version of Pijul from crates.io with cargo.

Then, you should be able to clone the repository using pijul itself and go on from there.

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Yesterday I tried to build Pijul from source on Windows 10 using $ cargo install pijul --version "~1.0.0-beta" and got the following error:

It looks like you're compiling for MSVC but we couldn't detect an OpenSSL installation. If there isn't one installed then you can try the rust-openssl README for more information about how to download precompiled binaries of OpenSSL:

https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl#windows

However, the rust-openssl README makes no mention of Windows. After some digging around, I downloaded Win64 OpenSSL v3.0.2 from Binaries - OpenSSLWiki and added the OPENSSL_DIR system environment variable, pointing to C:\Program Files\OpenSSL-Win64

Everything appeared to compile successfully, but then I got the following error:

error: linking with `link.exe` failed: exit code: 1181
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  = note: "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\BuildTools\\VC\\Tools\\MSVC\\14.28.29333\\bin\\HostX64\\x64\\link.exe" ... "/NATVIS:C:\\Users\\jonat\\.rustup\\toolchains\\stable-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc\\lib\\rustlib\\etc\\libstd.natvis"
  = note: LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'zstd.lib'


error: failed to compile `pijul v1.0.0-beta`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `C:\Users\jonat\AppData\Local\Temp\cargo-installQfz3uA`

Caused by:
  could not compile `pijul` due to previous error

Can anyone advise what to do next?

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Maybe download the binaries: Release 1.0.0-beta · boringcactus/pijul-windows-builds · GitHub

They don’t have the latest version of everything, but they do work.

Edit: that GitHub repository has a script to compile Pijul on Windows.

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If I download them from GitHub and they build successfully, will I then be able to download subsequent updates from Pijul?

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Yes. To clarify (because I don’t know what you mean by “them”), that repository is just a build script to install dependencies.

If you use that, and then compile Pijul, you will be able to use the compiled Pijul.

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Apologies, “them” as in the binaries.

Since a Windows Guide is needed, would it be worth my while deleting all I have done to date, and start again using the binaries, keeping a note of the actions I take to get a working copy of Pijul?

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So the README on GitHub just gives you a link to “download the latest release”. Following that link takes you to a page that offers a pijul executable, a Zip archive, and a GNU Zip archive of a tar file. No instructions at all. Presumably, only one of the archives is needed, but do I also need the executable? Is it a full Pijul build, or just something that uses the YAML files in the archive? Now I can see why a Windows Guide is needed!

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Since I got as far as a link error after downloading OpenSSL, wouldn’t it be easier to fix the bug for Windows in the standard build process rather than relying on a GitHub-hosted script? It would be good to be able to bootstrap Pijul for Windows without recourse to alternative version control software.