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Why no Windows support? #1880

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X-Ninja-dev opened this issue Oct 15, 2023 · 4 comments
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Why no Windows support? #1880

X-Ninja-dev opened this issue Oct 15, 2023 · 4 comments

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@X-Ninja-dev
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I'm so happy to have found this. Vim is getting too simple out of the box and NeoVim is a plugin hell and even though I find it all very interesting, I really just want to work.

But, like many others, I am forced to use Windows so I was just wondering why you have chosen not to support Windows. I kinda feel like one of the big selling points of Nim is the no-dependency binary that can be compiled for any platform with a C compiler.

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fox0430 commented Oct 15, 2023

@X-Ninja-dev

Thank you for your interest in this project.

As you say, I think Windows support is important as well.
The reason why moe still doesn't support Windows is because I usually only use Arch Linux, I don't use Windows and have no development experience...
I might be able to add support for it if you help.

@X-Ninja-dev X-Ninja-dev changed the title Why no Windows suppert? Why no Windows support? Oct 15, 2023
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Is 'ncurses' the only Linux specific library?

I would love to help out when I have a little extra time. I am already following along now and have been using the editor for a couple of hours this evening. Unfortunately came across quite a few bugs already that I do not know if is WSL2 specific bugs or not. I'll open an issue with a little bug report

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fox0430 commented Oct 15, 2023

@X-Ninja-dev

Is 'ncurses' the only Linux specific library?

Probably. At least it will work on Linux if we have Nim and Ncureses that compile to C.
I don't know details but someone tried using PDCurses in the past and it didn't seem to work.

I would love to help out when I have a little extra time. I am already following along now and have been using the editor for a couple of hours this evening. Unfortunately came across quite a few bugs already that I do not know if is WSL2 specific bugs or not. I'll open an issue with a little bug report

Thank you! About bugs, I'll fix it quickly If the cause is known.

About Windows support, if I can figure out how to do it, I might test it on Windows.

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Sound great mate. I'm going to keep using it and giving you feedback. And as soon as I have a little time we'll see if there's anything I can do to help out

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