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thanks for the good work => any chance for a prebuild windows binary in the releases? #270

Open alexisdal opened 10 months ago

alexisdal commented 10 months ago

Hello,

Just a few words of thank you for the apparently very good work of elinks.

I've been a happy user of lynx for years now.

Very recently I stumbled upon a case where a particular institutional website recently forced people to use JS. and lynx does not support if at all.

I figured it would be a good idea to check what's available today as text-only browser that would eventually support JS => I stumbled upon elinks that seems very promicing.

I'm not a c developer myself, but more of a humbler python guy. It's been years since I had not had to use the ./configure && make && make install commands. It's 5pm. since aout 2pm, I've been trying to get a decent binary working on my windows machine. First I didn't have ssl. then I did not have JS and had to choose a JS engine. I tried to use quickjs => I cannot even compile quickjs. Now i'm downloading and extracting the several GBytes of firefox source in an attempt to get spidermonkey in elinks...

I'm sure you guys could probably eaasily deliver a decent pre-compiled binary for windows. I even tried running an out of the box ubuntu 22 and tried the apt install elinks but unfortuntately the version that comes with it do not seems to have javascript available. it seems to me it should be a built-in feature...

just some candid feedback here

thanks for the good work

rkd77 commented 10 months ago

It is not so easy. There is many Windows versions. Also js implementation in ELinks is not "usable" yet.

goyalyashpal commented 10 months ago

hey @alexisdal u tried installing elinks from msys2 ?

msys2 now uses elinks from this repo.

rkd77 commented 9 months ago

There are Windows binaries in the Releases section, but I don't know whether they work. Likely Windows Vista or higher is required.

leao-nardo commented 8 months ago

i did found this page today , and i downloaded the win version on the 0.17 AND THE ORC VERSION BUT NONE WORK ON WIN 10. the files only open a cmd terminal and close in less than a second , and i did putted in the C:/ as in the bat file , run the bat , but still dont work.

and also in wsl the linux version installed by apt-get is 0.13 , but the project is already at 0.17

goyalyashpal commented 8 months ago

and also in wsl the linux version installed by apt-get is 0.13 , but the project is already at 0.17

why not use msys2?

rkd77 commented 8 months ago

@leao-nardo Did you try win32 binary? I've got the same issue with win64 binary.

leao-nardo commented 8 months ago

@leao-nardo Did you try win32 binary? I've got the same issue with win64 binary.

great . it works . seems a lot like Links2