Notes on setting up a Windows environment

[johnmaguire]

For posterity, since there was a small hangup, here's how I got a Windows environment for building backrest:

1. Install Parallels and Windows 11.
2. Install chocolatey
3. choco install git
4. Install nvm-windows
5. nvm install lts
6. nvm use lts
7. ssh-keygen -t ed25519
8. Add Windows SSH key to Github settings
9. git clone https://github.com/garethgeorge/backrest.git (or your fork)
10. go generate ./...
    At this step you will probably receive an error ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED for a file index.win32-x64-msvc.node. Follow these instructions to download Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable (x64) and then run go generate again.

You should now be able to use the normal flow of go generate ./... followed by go [run|build] . to run or build the program.

When running go test ./... I get many "Access denied" errors when the tests try to execute restic.exe commands. Running the tests as Administrator resolves the issue - I don't know of another way to avoid it.

To run a benchmark, cd into the directory containing its test file and run go test -bench ..