Currently unable to build on windows

[photex]

Heyo!

I'm new to buck and buckaroo so bear with me.

Starting by following the instructions for building buckaroo on your homepage I get the following result: BUILD FAILED: Must specify at least one build target

Reading over the BUCK file I realize I can try again and specify //:buckaroo-cli. Great stuff starts happening but then quickly fails with the following error:

C:\projects\buckaroo>..\buck\bin\buck build //:buckaroo-cli
[-] PARSING BUCK FILES...FINISHED 0.0s

C:\projects\buckaroo\buck-out\gen\jgit-jar-fixed__srcs>cp buck-out/gen/jgit-jar/jgit-4.5.0.jar C:\projects\buckaroo\buck-out\gen\jgit-jar-fixed\jgit-4.5.0-fixed.jar   && zip -d C:\projects\buckaroo\buck-out\gen\jgit-jar-fixed\jgit-4.5.0-fixed.jar META-INF/*.RSA META-INF/*.SF META-INF/*.MF

'cp' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

BUILD FAILED: //:jgit-jar-fixed failed with exit code 1:
genrule
stderr: 'cp' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[-] BUILDING...FINISHED 0.5s [100%] (24/27 JOBS, 1 UPDATED, 1 [3.7%] CACHE MISS)
[-] DOWNLOADING... (0.00 B/S AVG, TOTAL: 0.00 B, 0 Artifacts)

[njlr]

Ah, that is definitely a bug on our end!

It looks like we wrote part of the build script for macOS / Linux using cp but didn't write the version for Windows cmd.

I will take a look.

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In the meantime, you might find it helpful to look at this example of Buck on Windows: https://github.com/ilya-klyuchnikov/buck-windows-cxx.

This should be enough to get up and running with Buck while we fix Buckaroo.

[njlr]

If you are using Git Bash on Windows, then the current install procedure should work:

buck build :buckaroo-cli
java -jar ./buck-out/gen/buckaroo-cli.jar

[njlr]

The latest commit should fix things for PowerShell.

Let me know how you get on!

[photex]

Running it now, it can't find the zip command. Tried to run from powershell but I get the error that I haven't enabled running scripts... I'll look into that now. This marks the first time I've bothered to even run powershell haha.

[njlr]

In PowerShell try:

choco install zip

(Assuming you have Chocolatey installed from when you installed Buck)

[photex]

Right on! Worked from a normal dev shell even. :)

Thanks for the assistance!

[njlr]

Great!

The packages are not well tested on Windows, so if you run into any problems, please create an issue here: https://github.com/LoopPerfect/buckaroo-recipes