Windows Support

[siennathesane]

Great project! I'm a Windows guy, so naturally I tried it on Windows in PowerShell. Works for me with go build -v -o wtf.exe or go install -v since I didn't have make installed.

There are some areas that do need fixing, but I wanted to start a top level issue with some of what I see out of the box with a vanilla config:

• [] Bad Character Encoding in the box headers.
• [] Linux-specific tools used.
• [] Makefile only works on Linux.

You can see some of the issues in the screenshot. If you can point me to where that code exists, I might be able to help make it work as intended on Windows.

[senorprogrammer]

For the title characters, those are all hard-coded into the widgets themselves as unicode characters (i.e.: https://github.com/senorprogrammer/wtf/blob/bbdc860625ed45001bdc8bd737eb3643a5baba33/bamboohr/widget.go#L19).

Security is entirely macOS-specific, however extracting that into platform-specific code shouldn't be too tough. Same with the build settings.

OS and Build are macOS-specific, in the System module, a file called system_info.go. Rename that to macos.go, add a Windows-specific version, and branch in widget.go here https://github.com/senorprogrammer/wtf/blob/bbdc860625ed45001bdc8bd737eb3643a5baba33/system/widget.go#L30 and that shouldn't be too tough to get working either.

[siennathesane]

Gotcha, I will see how it goes, thanks!

[jon-peel]

@mxplusb is it possible to distribute a Windows binary if you have already built it, or would it need to built per machine?

[siennathesane]

@Thorocaine depends on the license @senorprogrammer has, but once it's built, I'm sure it can get distributed by someone. :)

[senorprogrammer]

If the MIT license doesn't support that (and I'm pretty sure it does), then I'll switch to a license that does. You should be able to distribute whatever you build.

[jon-peel]

I did manage to get it working (mostly) in Windows Subsystem for Linux.
The only thing that I have tried that doesn't show anything is the Calendar.

[siennathesane]

@Thorocaine go build -v -o wtf.exe works, there are just some weird nuances. If you are curious what support looks like, just take a look at #150.

[sspaink]

Is there an update on distributing Windows binaries? There isn't a Windows binary included in the current release. Are there maybe still activate tickets waiting for completion before distribution is possible?
Thanks!

[senorprogrammer]

I just added a Windows target to the .goreleaser config. Next release we'll see what happens. I'll update here when that's done.

[siennathesane]

@senorprogrammer there are some changes coming in 1905 that implement much better Terminal support and might make it a bit more feasible to do natively.