Is a Windows version of Mint planned?

[Teddy55Codes]

I am currently using mint on a project where some people are using windows. After a bit of testing in a VM, i found that there are only a few changes required to get mint running on windows.

• Using baked_file_system with the windows fix #48
• Using platform agnostic termination handling in src/command.cr (Process.on_terminate instead of Signal::INT.trap) and in src/test_runner/browser.cr (process.terminate instead of process.signal(:kill)).

After these changes i was able to run a basic mint app. There are 2 additional issues i have found however.

• When i tried the mint-website i got an error that an environment variable could not be found, even after i set that environment variable manually.
• When i tried to use the language server with the vscode extension, it always complains that it could not find the mint.json file.

My question is, now that crystal has a preview windows version, is a windows version of mint planned?

[gdotdesign]

Yes, we definitely want to have a Windows version, I was just waiting for it to became Tier 2 (stable), but what you wrote seems promising 👍

I would be happy to accept a PR with the changes you mentioned and a CI workflow for windows to see what tests are failing and we can continue from there.

[gdotdesign]

The current work-in-progress code for windows support is on this branch: https://github.com/mint-lang/mint/tree/windows

The current status: on Windows 11 the specs run, but not on CI (Windows 10)