Missing crate `sys` error

[AadumKhor]

Steps taken

I have Nu shell installed on Windows 10 machine running on the Windows Terminal app. Use the following command to install cargo install porsmo

Logs after running the above command

❯ cargo install porsmo
    Updating crates.io index
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error[E0433]: failed to resolve: maybe a missing crate `sys`?
  --> C:\Users\user\.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\termion-1.5.6\src\lib.rs:24:9
   |
24 | pub use sys::size::terminal_size;
   |         ^^^ maybe a missing crate `sys`?
   |
   = help: consider adding `extern crate sys` to use the `sys` crate

   |
27 | pub use sys::tty::{is_tty, get_tty};
   |         ^^^ maybe a missing crate `sys`?
   |
   = help: consider adding `extern crate sys` to use the `sys` crate

error[E0433]: failed to resolve: maybe a missing crate `sys`?
 --> C:\Users\user\.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\termion-1.5.6\src\async.rs:5:5
  |
5 | use sys::tty::get_tty;
  |     ^^^ maybe a missing crate `sys`?
  |
  = help: consider adding `extern crate sys` to use the `sys` crate

error[E0433]: failed to resolve: maybe a missing crate `sys`?
  --> C:\Users\user\.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\termion-1.5.6\src\raw.rs:28:5
   |
28 | use sys::attr::{get_terminal_attr, raw_terminal_attr, set_terminal_attr};
   |     ^^^ maybe a missing crate `sys`?
   |
   = help: consider adding `extern crate sys` to use the `sys` crate

error[E0432]: unresolved import `sys`
  --> C:\Users\user\.cargo\registry\src\github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823\termion-1.5.6\src\raw.rs:29:5
   |
29 | use sys::Termios;
   |     ^^^ maybe a missing crate `sys`?
   |
   = help: consider adding `extern crate sys` to use the `sys` crate

   Compiling clap_derive v3.2.18
   Compiling rodio v0.12.0
   Compiling strum v0.22.0
Some errors have detailed explanations: E0432, E0433.
For more information about an error, try `rustc --explain E0432`.
error: could not compile `termion` due to 5 previous errors
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: failed to compile `porsmo v0.1.3`, intermediate artifacts can be found at `C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Temp\cargo-install0dfZd5`

Question

1. Is this crate supposed to work only on Unix based systems?
2. If not, how do I resolve this? Would love to use this on my Windows machine

[linkion]

I'm also having this issue on Windows 11

[linkion]

looks like termion just doesn't have windows support https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion/-/issues/167

Here's a MR for it, but looks like Termion won't be developing it any time soon as it's deemed "stable" https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/termion/-/merge_requests/151

[linkion]

Looks like crossterm may be a better terminal backend than Termion since:

• it has most of the features, if not more
• is being actively maintained
• looks to be better in cross-platform compatibility.

[ColorCookie-dev]

I agree, crossterm maybe better. I will be switching to that, as I have gotten to learn it in my other projects.

[ColorCookie-dev]

This project has been migrated to Crossterm. So, I'm closing this issue because of 7bd7b69bee15784eeee8da3fe384a583cd3ca68f