A compiler release for windows

[omern1]

When are you planning to release a compiler for windows?

[asterite]

There's currently no one in the core team working on this, sorry. Also read this: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/crystal-lang/grBVugVCHm0

[omern1]

@asterite Can I make the compiler output ASM?

[asterite]

@nabeelomer Yes, do --emit asm

[omern1]

@asterite Somebody working on a Windows release now?

[asterite]

@nabeelomer Not really. There's this, but we never merged it or tested it well, plus it's missing a lot of things.

[omern1]

@asterite I read issue #26. If you can give me some kind of a 'compiler frontend' for Crystal, I think I will be able to make it work.

[stephan-nordnes-eriksen]

@asterite You say I can run "--emit asm". Where can I do this? If I am able to get the asm, I might be able to convert that into an .exe and boostrap the compiler somehow.

[jhass]

This is really not about crosscompiling but about getting stdlib compatible.

[stephan-nordnes-eriksen]

@jhass Maybe I am just naive, but how is it not about cross compiling? Wouldn't it be solved by something like mingw?

[refi64]

@stephan-nordnes-eriksen I issue is simply that the Crystal standard library doesn't work on Windows. So, it couldn't even possibly compile.

[jhass]

@stephan-nordnes-eriksen cross compiling is there, did you follow my link? stdlib is not there.

[omern1]

@jhass You could release only the compiler and not the library for Windows (we'll call the Windows API for every thing).

[jhass]

@nabeelomer no, the compiler itself heavily relies on stdlib.

[ozra]

I'll just add a direct link here for reference: https://github.com/xwanderer/crystal/tree/win32/win32
Doesn't seem to have been touched for a few months though.
@nabeelomer - maybe you want to pick up the port? B-)