version for Windows please

[zpdDG4gta8XKpMCd]

subj

[Schmavery]

I had no problems installing it using Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. Just available in Insider Preview builds right now but should be released pretty soon, I'd imagine.

[chenglou]

woohoo cc @jordwalke

[ForNeVeR]

I am still not sure if that Bash for Windows thing could be considered "production"-ready and for which scenarios exactly. Native Windows version still would be preferable.

We want the toolchain to be able to compile native Windows executables after all.

[XVilka]

Related ocaml/opam#2191

[XVilka]

And this one - facebook/infer#35 - is also from Facebook. Sadly OCaml ecosystem has poor Windows platform support.

[chenglou]

As a side note, we got some docker stuff checked in yesterday.

[braibant]

https://github.com/braibant/ocaml-windows-bootstrap contains a powershell script that should install cygwin and the dependencies required by OCaml, as well as some OCaml packages. It could be nice to update it to handle reason.

[XVilka]

Regarding opam support for Windows without need for Cygwin (and compiling OCaml as well, using opam) - there is a lot of activity in this branch https://github.com/dra27/opam/commits/windows

[kennetpostigo]

@jordwalke I think theres a windows support issue open in reason-cli, would it be okay to close this and move discussion over to that issue?

[chenglou]

refmt itself on js side now works on windows, though the installation path is indeed a bit different now. Closing!