Provide support for windows OS

[SarthakMakhija]

goselect should run on Windows OS. At this point, goselect runs on MacOS and linux with ARM64, AMD64 and i386 processor.

One of the main challenges in ensuring that it runs on windows is the way golang exposes

• CreatedTime, ModifiedTime, AccessTime from file API
• The way user and group information needs to be found in windows
• The way block information needs to be found in windows
• The way hidden file are found in windows (hidden_windows.go already exists)

In order to provide support for windows we must make the following changes:

Changes

1. Provides CreatedTime, ModifiedTime, AccessTime for windows by providing a go file built for windows
2. Provide user and group information for windows
3. Provide blocks information for windows
4. Ensure all the existing tests run
5. Create a build pipeline for windows and all the tests should run

Reference

1. Look at the platform package inside context

[bryonye]

Hey, is this still available? I’m happy to have a go.

[SarthakMakhija]

Sure, the change is tricky though :)

Please do let me know if you would like to pair or collaborate somehow ..

[SarthakMakhija]

@bryonye Hey .. I would like to close this issue .. We have added support for Windows OS (AMD64) as a part of 0.0.7 release

[SarthakMakhija]

Closing the issue .. Windows support is available now