Building on windows

[Traderain]

Hi, I am trying to install this on windows but I cannot get it working. I managed to get the libraries and such but I might be missing something here.

C:\Users\hamba\Documents\Repos\opendrop>python opendrop
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\lib\runpy.py", line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", mod_spec)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\lib\runpy.py", line 85, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "opendrop\__main__.py", line 20, in <module>
    from opendrop import cli
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 971, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 955, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 656, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 626, in _load_backward_compatible
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\lib\site-packages\opendrop-0.10-py3.6.egg\opendrop\cli.py", line 30, in <module>
    from .client import AirDropBrowser, AirDropClient
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 971, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 955, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 656, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 626, in _load_backward_compatible
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\lib\site-packages\opendrop-0.10-py3.6.egg\opendrop\client.py", line 26, in <module>
    import libarchive
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\lib\site-packages\libarchive\__init__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from .entry import ArchiveEntry
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\lib\site-packages\libarchive\entry.py", line 6, in <module>
    from . import ffi
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\lib\site-packages\libarchive\ffi.py", line 27, in <module>
    libarchive = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(libarchive_path)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 426, in LoadLibrary
    return self._dlltype(name)
  File "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Python36_64\lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 348, in __init__
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
TypeError: LoadLibrary() argument 1 must be str, not None

[schmittner]

OpenDrop/AirDrop won't work on Windows unless we have a working AWDL implementation for that platform as well. Therefore, we currently do not support that platform.

For completeness sake: it seems that you are missing the libarchive dependency.