emcrisostomo / fswatch

A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends: Apple OS X File System Events, *BSD kqueue, Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification, Linux inotify, Microsoft Windows and a stat()-based backend.
https://emcrisostomo.github.io/fswatch/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Installation for windows missing #309

Open Anne4444 opened 1 year ago

Anne4444 commented 1 year ago

I installed fswatch 1.17. using wsl ubuntu on a windows machine. fswatch now runs on ubuntu. However the inotiy-monitor does not show changes in the windows download directory. Using the poll-monitor there are no problems. However I do not want to poll. As I am executing fswatch on ubuntu the windows-monitor is not available.

How can I start fswatch on windows with the windows-monitor? Currently I can not start fswatch on windows at all. What do I have to do to install/configure fswatch for windows?

I followed the instructions on README.windows and INSTALL. I did not follow: README.gnu-build-system, because I assume that this was done automatically

I am using Windows 11.