odix67
I’m developing a desktop application using the structure for building the native parts from the source of livebook.
I’ve no troubles with the macOS build, but I’m struggling with the windows build. What are the requirements for the windows build environment, or what is a usable build environment ?
Thx in advance
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odix67
it would also help to know how to build livebook on windows
D4no0
Have you checked this repo? GitHub - elixir-desktop/desktop: Building Local-First apps for Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS and Android using Phoenix LiveView & Elixir! · GitHub
It should run on all modern platforms, including windows.
odix67
Thanks for the reply, I’ve already taken a look on it, but we decided to go for livebook like approach. I think the problems is in general using the windows build script, to be clear, if I run in on macOS all seems to be ok, but the
makensistook complains about the/somethingparameters in the script, on non-win platforms it uses the-instead of the/. So in livebook source they are using the/, so suggested the build it on windows and I just want to know the setup on windows to execute the build script, which is a bash script, not really typical to windows, I think. I left windows about 20 years ago, only using it, if I really have toD4no0
The windows support is not as good as for linux/macos, so it might require you to do the heavy lifting yourself. Sorry, can’t help with more as I don’t use windows for development.
wojtekmach
You can also check out elixirkit, there’s a demo project in there and we use it for Livebook Desktop. At the moment it is inside the Livebook repo but eventually we will extract it out to be it’s own project and Hex package.
wojtekmach
oh, sorry, I thought it was a general question about desktop apps. @odix67 mentioned he’s specifically looking at livebook desktop source code.
I’d say start with building the elixirkit demo app and then move on to building Livebook desktop. We build Livebook Desktop for Windows on CI, livebook/.github/workflows/test.yml at v0.14.2 · livebook-dev/livebook · GitHub, so hopefully that is some help. For my development I use bash (from Redirecting…) and got .NET from Visual Studio Community Edition.
odix67
thx Wojtek, I’ve missed the test.yaml (why I don’t use global text search ?), and the bash from git tool.
great