Reference last commit before Crystal starts bootstrapping itself

[beatrieziz]

Hello, I recently just found this project and it's sad that it doesn't support Windows (yet). If possible, can someone reference the last commit before the project starts bootstrapping itself? I'm using MinGW if it'll help in any way. Also, output of make:

File not found - *.cr
File not found - *.cr
Using /mingw64/bin/llvm-config [version=12.0.1]
CRYSTAL_CONFIG_BUILD_COMMIT="7a687936f" CRYSTAL_CONFIG_PATH='$ORIGIN/../share/crystal/src' SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH="1632308257" CRYSTAL_CONFIG_LIBRARY_PATH='$ORIGIN/../lib/crystal' ./bin/crystal build  -o .build/crystal src/compiler/crystal.cr -D without_openssl -D without_zlib
./bin/crystal: line 156: crystal: command not found
You need to have a crystal executable in your path! or set CRYSTAL env variable
make: *** [Makefile:168: .build/crystal] Error 1

[straight-shoota]

The last Ruby-hosted compiler version was in ancient times 😆

Bootstrapping an entire compiler lineage from the last Ruby-hosted compiler is a lot of effort. https://github.com/crystal-lang/bootstrap-script/blob/master/bootstrap contains a build script for that.

But that would only work for platforms supported by older compiler versions. Windows support of the compiler is rather recent. Backporting that to the last Ruby compiler would be close to insane.

You can much easier get a windows compiler by cross-compiling from a supported platform. See https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Porting-to-Windows for instructions.

[beatrieziz]

Sadly, I don't have admin privilege to install the C++ Build Tools. Won't MSYS2 work? One more thing, I don't have WSL or any Linux/MacOS environment with me right now. I don't think I would be able to compile it then.

On side note, does anyone have any prebuilt binaries for the crystal compiler (for Windows)?

[straight-shoota]

Well, you're gonna need MSVC anyways to build on Windows. Not just for building the compiler, but any Crystal program is linked via MSVC.

Unfortunately, windows-gnu targets are not yet supported at all (see #6170). I suppose it probably shouldn't be hard to do, but for now we're focussing only on windows-msvc.

[beatrieziz]

Ah, thanks for the info. Should I close this issue or keep it open for future references?