Windows support? about glfw.jl HOT 6 CLOSED

Windows is supported if you place and name the dll correctly. It looks like you have a couple different problems:

1. The code you're using is for GLFW 2, but you downloaded GLFW 3 binaries. The two versions are incompatible.
2. I don't think Julia will know to look in C:\Program Files\GLFW.

I suggest you try my glfw3 branch. It's still under development, but it handles library installation for you. The following should install everything and then display an empty window:

Pkg.checkout("GLFW", "glfw3")
Pkg.build("GLFW")
include(Pkg.dir("GLFW", "examples/simple.jl"))

Let me know how it goes, and feel free to reopen this issue if you still have a problem that seems Windows-specific.

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Ah. Okay. I was originally just using the one that the JuliaStudio GUI installs by default.

Long story short, I got everything working by manually copying the DLLs and archive to C:\Users\[username]\.julia\GLFW\deps\ before running Pkg.build, but the auto-installer never worked for me.

Running Pkg.build("GLFW") kept giving me the error
could not start process which curl: no such file or directory (ENOENT) at C:\Users\[username]\.julia\GLFW\deps\build.jl:9
which appears to be build.jl trying to download your GLFW archive using cURL.

I installed cURL, but still get the error. Isn't which a Linux command?

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Final note: the auto-installer works if I install cURL and GnuWin32 which. Not really a high priority, but it might be nice having an error message explaining what the problem is and how to solve it. :)

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build.jl uses Base.download, which is probably what was emitting the error messages. It works for me with the v0.2.1 self-extracting archive from julialang.org because curl (and other handy utils like 7z) are part of the distribution. Does JuliaStudio not provide them?

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I just downloaded and installed Julia Studio 0.4.4 and it worked for me. It looks like they distribute the tools. Are you using an older version or something?

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No...I just installed Julia Studio 4.4 a few days ago. None of the included tools are on my system path, though, so that might be the problem. Once I added them by hand everything worked fine. Perhaps JS tried to add them to the path and silently failed?

In any event, it looks like just another weird environment bug on my end. Sorry for the bother. :)

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