Native Windows build efforts

[jbsolomon]

Hi,

I built Idris2 from source on 28b7c62521a01ec4e4924cd77b904387fca47137 without using Make or MSYS2 by simply writing YafflePaths.idr by hand, uncommenting opts = "--partial-eval -O2 --cg-opt -lws2_32" in idris2.ipkg, and running idris --build idris2.ipkg.

Edit: I realize now that the missing libs is already mentioned in the Idris repo: https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris-dev/wiki/Windows-Binaries#troubleshooting

The rest of my comments deal with building Prelude and the rest of the base libs.

[jbsolomon]

I've tried to build Prelude as follows:

First I set IDRIS2_PATH and IDRIS2_DATA in my environment to equal the values (with Windows-style path separators) from the Makefile.

Then I cd to libs\prelude and run ..\..\idris2.exe --install prelude.ipkg. The library builds successfully but I get the error Uncaught error: File error (prelude): File Read Error.

I wonder if some of the mixed-up path separators in these variables are causing the error?

C:\Users\bodie\meta\build\Idris2\libs\prelude>..\..\idris2.exe --paths
+ Working Directory   :: "C:\\Users\\bodie\\meta\\build\\Idris2\\libs\\prelude"
+ Source Directory    :: Nothing
+ Build Directory     :: "build"
+ Executable Directory     :: "build/exec"
+ Installation Prefix :: "C:\\Users\\bodie\\.idris2"
+ Extra Directories :: [".", "C:\\Users\\bodie\\meta\\build\\Idris2\\libs\\prelude\\build\\ttc", "C:\\Users\\bodie\\meta\\build\\Idris2\\libs\\base\\build\\ttc", "C:\\Users\\bodie\\.idris2/idris2-0.0.0/prelude", "C:\\Users\\bodie\\.idris2/idris2-0.0.0/base"]
+ CG Library Directories :: [".", "C:\\Users\\bodie\\.idris2/idris2-0.0.0/lib"]
+ Data Directories :: ["C:\\Users\\bodie\\meta\\build\\Idris2\\support", "C:\\Users\\bodie\\.idris2/idris2-0.0.0/support"]