Add Windows Install Instructions (in Wiki?)

[jmh530]

There was a question on the forum about how to install this on Windows. I tried to provide some help from my experiences, but it could probably be fleshed out in more detail and put in the wiki or something.

[wilzbach]

You could also do what a few other projects do and ship the dll files as a dependency, e.g.

https://github.com/dlang/dub/blob/master/dub.sdl https://github.com/ariovistus/pyd/blob/034e680e1231f6458478997058f9a99203f1774d/dub.json

Though I'm not a huge friend of dumping binaries into a repo, but maybe a blas-windows window-only dependency could be added, s.t. the normal users and source isn't affected? I'm not entirely sure whether platform="windows" works for dependencies, but otherwise different configurations could be used like vibe.d:vibe-core does:

https://github.com/vibe-d/vibe.d/blob/master/core/dub.sdl

[jmh530]

@wilzbach I'm all in favor of anything that makes it easier for Windows users to use mir/lubeck.

[wilzbach]

Well, I don't use Windows nor have any big experiences with it apart from the things I see on GitHub, so it was just a suggestion. I couldn't even compile the dlls, so I am sorry, but I can't help out with a PR here :/

[jmh530]

You could add the above as a project for libmir. Not really sure where it fits in as an issue since it probably could be a dependency in multiple places and require changes across many dub.json/sdl files.

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Well, I don't use Windows nor have any big experiences with it apart from the things I see on GitHub, so it was just a suggestion. I couldn't even compile the dlls, so I am sorry, but I can't help out with a PR here :/

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[Laeeth]

git lfs ? https://git-lfs.github.com/

[jmh530]

@Laeeth I thought that was more for things like game assets. I wouldn't think that a blas/lapack dll would be too big for git or github

[wilzbach]

Yeah I would assume the dlls to be a few MBs. Not too bad, but good if it can be avoided from polluting the git history and Posix downloads. Also dub doesn't support git lfs.

[9il]

First progress https://github.com/kaleidicassociates/lubeck#required-system-libraries https://github.com/libmir/mir-lapack/wiki/Link-with-CBLAS-&-LAPACK