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windows builds for https://pijul.org
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Installing Pijul on Windows #4

Open Dangthrimble opened 8 months ago

Dangthrimble commented 8 months ago

I assume the documentation (and presumably the installation process) for Pijul is clear for all OSes with the exception of Windows. The section on installing in the Pijul Manual does provide a link to these “community-provided binaries” for Windows, but downloading and running the executable doesn’t appear to achieve a lot. So I guess the question is, do I just download the executable and add it to my path? If not, what should I do? Either way, it would be good for the relevant guidance to be included, either in the Pijul Manual or in the executable’s README.md on GitHub (with maybe a reference to that README in the Pijul Manual, as it is not visible when following the link). I take it there are some people out there who are using Pijul on Windows. If so, can someone fill in the blanks for what could (should?) be in the Pijul Manual between “Installing” and “Getting started” when the target is Windows?

Thanks =O)

mzji commented 8 months ago

To use pijul.exe released within this repo, 1) You have to install MSVC runtime first (Here) ; 2) Then just download pijul.exe and place it into any PATH directory (I place it in cargo's binary directory, BTW) ; 3) Done! Now pijul is callable in cmd or PowerShell.