SDK for Windows

[leovarmak]

I would like to know where can I get the SDK for Windows OS so I can start working on Emojicode.

[OttoWinter]

Windows is not supported, you could try with a virtual machine though.

[leovarmak]

Please try to implement this on Windows as almost half of the world uses it. Looking forward for the release

[thbwd]

@leovarmak There are a few things we would need to change in order to make Emojicode work on Windows, like for instance the secure random generator. You could try to compile Emojicode in an environment like MinGW and see what needs to be fixed.

[AlienHoboken]

I got the compiler and engine running on Windows this weekend. It has been a busy week, as soon as I get the chance I will review my code, commit it, and submit a pull request.

[thbwd]

@AlienHoboken We're going to release a beta release pretty soon, and it would be nice to know what's the state of things here.

[rjstone]

Is this still working? I'd be interested in having this work in Windows. What was needed to build it in windows? Just the mingw toolchain?

[moigagoo]

You can run Emojicode in Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. I just installed it and compiled a few programs. No issues noticed, just like regular Linux.

[thbwd]

@moigagoo "Ubuntu on Windows" is that new thing Microsoft introduced into Windows 10, isn’t it?

[moigagoo]

@idmean Yeah, exactly. Here's some info from Microsoft: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about

[thbwd]

@moigagoo That’s a really cool! If we could setup a guide on how to install/use Emojicode like that on Windows, that would be fantastic. Mind to share the steps you have taken? Was there anything special regarding the installation?

[moigagoo]

It's literally the instructions from http://www.emojicode.org/docs/guides/#-magic-installation, without any modification. The only thing worth noticing is that I had to run ./install.sh under sudo in order to write to /usr/local/, but that's a general Linux thing, nothing specific to Windows.

[rozaxe]

Oops, I wasn't referring the issue, just trying to automate the build onto travis 😅
But, I did try building emojicode on Windows (with Visual Studio 2015 and LLVM).
It was not great. I will need to dig dipper, but don't know if I will find something.

[901238746]

I tried wsl but it said "[1] 48
[2] 49
[3] 50
-bash: line 1: cd: Emojicode-1.0-beta.2-Linux-x86_64: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove 'Emojicode-1.0-beta.2-Linux-x86_64': No such file or directory
[3]+ Exit 1 cd Emojicode-1.0-beta.2-Linux-x86_64 && sudo ./install.sh & (wd: ~)
(wd now: /home)
sidblox@DESKTOP-LR174AP:/home$ tar (child): emojicode.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
" then i tried again and it said "[1] 59
[2] 60
-bash: cd: Emojicode-1.0-beta: No such file or directory
sidblox@DESKTOP-LR174AP:/home$ tar (child): emojicode.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
emojicode.tar.gz: Permission denied"

[joeskeen]

Hey @901238746 I'm using WSL for my Emojicoding nowadays so I'm sure we can get yours working.

I'm assuming this is the output when you ran this command from the Magic Installation page?

wget https://github.com/emojicode/emojicode/releases/download/v1.0-beta.2/Emojicode-1.0-beta.2-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz -O emojicode.tar.gz \
&& tar -xzf emojicode.tar.gz && rm emojicode.tar.gz \
&& cd Emojicode-1.0-beta.2-Linux-x86_64 && ./install.sh \
&& cd .. && rm -r Emojicode-1.0-beta.2-Linux-x86_64

You can separate this into separate commands by splitting it up wherever there is &&:

wget https://github.com/emojicode/emojicode/releases/download/v1.0-beta.2/Emojicode-1.0-beta.2-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz -O emojicode.tar.gz
tar -xzf emojicode.tar.gz 
rm emojicode.tar.gz
cd Emojicode-1.0-beta.2-Linux-x86_64 
./install.sh
cd ..
rm -r Emojicode-1.0-beta.2-Linux-x86_64

Try running one line at a time until you get a failure. From the output you posted it doesn't seem to have gotten too far before it started failing (from the "No such file or directory" errors). If you can post just the first failing command and its output, I think I could help you get it working.

[901238746]

ok ty

[901238746]

it said "--2023-03-19 18:57:46-- https://github.com/emojicode/emojicode/releases/download/v1.0-beta.2/Emojicode-v1.0-beta.2-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 140.82.113.3
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|140.82.113.3|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2023-03-19 18:57:47 ERROR 404: Not Found."

[joeskeen]

Hmm... I get a 404 when I click on that link. Let me look up the actual release URL.

[joeskeen]

Found this on the releases page - give this a try:
https://github.com/emojicode/emojicode/releases/download/v1.0-beta.2/Emojicode-1.0-beta.2-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz