[Help] zk Windows binaries availability

[pidgeon777]

If I understood correctly, Windows binaries for zk exist, but I'm encountering difficulties finding them.

[mickael-menu]

I can't test or build zk for Windows, so I don't include any Windows binaries in the release notes. So unfortunately you will need to build it yourself.

Windows is not officially supported with zk, but external contributors are sometimes ensuring that it's still buildable on Windows.

[pidgeon777]

Ok. Please if someone could share some knowledge on how to build zk on Windows, it would be much appreciated 👍.

[mickael-menu]

I think you might get some help asking on this PR https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk/pull/171

[rstacruz]

If anyone comes across this looking to use zk on Windows: Windows is unsupported right now, but it should work. I'm posting what I did. You may need to install Go:

winget install -e --id GoLang.Go.1.19

git and gcc is also needed. I installed them via scoop:

scoop install git-with-openssh
scoop install gcc

From there, I followed the readme instructions:

git clone https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk
cd zk
make
.\zk.exe -h

(btw it's also possible to install git via winget using winget install -e --id Git.Git, and scoop can install Go via scoop install go, but the combination above is what I can confirm to be working)

[KSaiAkshit]

If anyone comes across this looking to use zk on Windows: Windows is unsupported right now, but it should work. I'm posting what I did. You may need to install Go:

winget install -e --id GoLang.Go.1.19

git and gcc is also needed. I installed them via scoop:

scoop install git-with-openssh
scoop install gcc

From there, I followed the readme instructions:

git clone https://github.com/mickael-menu/zk
cd zk
make
.\zk.exe -h

(btw it's also possible to install git via winget using winget install -e --id Git.Git, and scoop can install Go via scoop install go, but the combination above is what I can confirm to be working)

First off, thanks for pointing that out. It did compile as expected. Can you use an editor with zk new? I set it to several different editors, but none seem to work. I tried Helix, nvim, Lunarvim. None of them seem to work. I can open another issue if needed.