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Raiden Client for Windows #2482

Open christianbrb opened 6 years ago

christianbrb commented 6 years ago

Abstract

Make Raiden installable on notebooks/servers/workstations running Windows.

Motivation

Personally, I am running windows 10. After making some attempts to run Raiden on the windows subsystem (WSL) and Docker, I went back to use VirtualBox. It works, but also needs time to maintain and performance isn't that good.

In addition, there are discussions on Reddit about it: https://www.reddit.com/r/raidennetwork/comments/9ced2a/can_you_run_raiden_on_windows/ https://www.reddit.com/r/raidennetwork/comments/9e2vgh/raiden_network_node_linux_vs_windows/

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Backwards Compatibility

BCsRock commented 6 years ago

After making some attempts to run Raiden on the windows subsystem (WSL) and Docker, I went back to use VirtualBox.

What were your problems with Docker?

I am currently working on a small docker image pulling the latest stable binary (not build from source).

This should be fine to use on Windows machines too. (With the usual problems of directory mounting etc.)

ulope commented 6 years ago

I've successfully tested the linux binary release directly on WSL a few months ago. Worked fine without VMs, docker or anything else.

pepae commented 6 years ago

Same here, tested it yesterday with Infura.

Because I used Infura and because I didn't have Geth installed on WSL, I had to manually copy a wallet json from somewhere else into the respective directory, otherwise my steps where the same as described in the installation section of the documentation. Client + Webui started fine, I could join a token network, however, I couldn't test transfers as I was on the non-active Ropsten testnet smart contracts.

I can write up a mini guide if that becomes necessary at some point and if we have a place for it.

CosminNechifor commented 5 years ago

@christianbrb I've tried to create windows binaries on a win10 VM but ended up failing, always ending up with a different problem.

My question is: Do we really want to provide native windows binaries? I am asking this because I don't see the need. The user could use the linux binary inside WSL or use the docker image. In my opinion we should focus more on improving the tutorials for those.