Anyone here know of any resources to help build Elixir natively (not in wsl) in Windows? I don’t know c/c++ toolchains well so am interested if there’s a recipe-style doc somewhere. I do have the repo locally and tried make compile. I didn’t really expect that to work in Windows and … indeed it didn’t.
For background - I mainly want this to be able to jump to the elixir standard library sources in my editor. It seems having a full local Elixir build is the only way to do this, but if there is another way I’m all ears.
At the very least you’ll need a Visual Studio dev runtime installed if I remember correctly (not necessarily the entire Visual Studio itself) which is the equivalent of varous *-dev packages in Linux that contain header and object files.
Thanks everyone. Of course it would involve installing Microsoft’s behemoth toolchain. I’ve done that before when necessary, but now I think about it for this purpose it seems like overkill. I think I’ll pursue the other route first (see if there’s a way to jump to the sources in the installed elixir package) and come back to this if need be. Cheers.
