Support development contributions directly from Windows

MarkMcCulloh commented 1 year ago

Feature Spec

Contributors working on https://github.com/winglang/wing can now build and test the repo locally directly on Windows.

Developing in WSL or devcontainers can be convenient, but the overhead of running builds in containers/vms is very heavy. This is especially due to the heavy io that builds/tests usually require. As a toolchain relying heavily on WASM, this repo is uniquely situated to be able to perform multi-platform builds.

Challenges:

Maintaining consistency across platforms will be a new forever burden.

Use Cases

Faster/Easier development for contributors on Windows.

Implementation Notes

[ ] Move away from wasi-sdk to a better system for c cross compilation (zig may be a good choice here, it includes wasi-libc)
[ ] Change all .sh scripts used for building into js scripts
[ ] Make sure all commands in the repo are cross-platform (all package.json scripts and unit test commands)
[ ] All unit tests need to handle different possible path conventions (especially in snapshots)
[ ] A github action should run on windows to make sure changes aren't pushed that break Windows builds

Component

Contributor Experience

Community Notes

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github-actions[bot] commented 8 months ago

Hi,

This issue hasn't seen activity in 60 days. Therefore, we are marking this issue as stale for now. It will be closed after 7 days. Feel free to re-open this issue when there's an update or relevant information to be added. Thanks!

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