Difficulties running on Windows (Release ZIP issues, build issues) about chuckdesigner HOT 5 CLOSED

Quick followup: realizing that last error should be due to it thinking it's building on mac, which it clearly isn't, which further points to my inadequacy with make tools.

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Downloaded the source zip in the releases to see if I could have any more luck there, with at least one good result: saw in the github workflows file that the command to generate the zip files is actually a tar command! When I ran tar xvf ChucKDesigner-windows-latest.zip, I got dlls! Such relief.

That said, I did also try to follow the build instructions that are in there, and my cmake command, while it ran smoothly (after copying over the chuck source, since I couldn't init submodules since I wasn't in a git repo), I didn't get the expected sln in the build dir afterwards, so I'm not sure yet what's going on there.

tl;dr: the release zips are actually release tars; still not sure how to build on windows.

(And, since this was originally about the zips, really, we can close this here if you like or keep it open to talk about windows build instructions.)

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Thanks for the good troubleshooting. I will fix it to not be a tar next time;;;

It sounds like you're almost there with building locally. Definitely do everything the git clone way if possible. I think that bison and the lex stuff just don't need to be run on Windows. If you upload a cmake log/output I can take a look.

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You're right about the bison and lex stuff. I nuked my clone of the repo (since I'd tinkered with it and left it in an unknown state), recloned, and just ran the commands from from the github action through powershell. Worked like a charm. Not sure exactly what I messed up the first time around, but I imagine it had something to do with bungling around in wsl.

Thanks for bearing with me. Looking forward to playing with this and Faust in TD!

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Great! Please follow up with any issues in either project :)

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