create windows executable

[stefanjudis]

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[rowanwins]

Gday @stefanjudis

I'd be happy to take a bit of a look at this. I've succesfully compiled an electron app on my windows machine before although using a previous version of electron so I'll take a look at what is involved in the newer versions.
Will keep you posted.

PS Forrest looks like a handy little app, well done!

[stefanjudis]

@rowanwins

Thx. :)

Yeah compiling wouldn't be a big issues I think. Shell handling is probably more troublesome as Forrest currently opens terminal sessions in the background and navigates to the given folders.

Let me know, when I can help somehow. :)

[rowanwins]

Gday @stefanjudis ,

Well as you suspected I've run into an issue with the child_pty module in the sessions.js which is being used for spawning child processes, it appears that this module isn't windows friendly. I've attempted to replace it with a few other modules such as cross-spawn-sync without much joy. Anyway I'll keep digging to see if I can get something going although I'm open to suggestions :)

[stefanjudis]

@rowanwins

The thing here is, that just spawning the given command is not enough. This was my first approach, and this worked fine to a given point. But then it I discovered that streams are not a reliable thing here.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38643264/order-of-process-stdout-on-data-and-process-stderr-on-data

So the approach has to stay spawning a new shell, I think. But yeah didn't dig much into it more as child_pty did the job for me.

+hyperterm uses it, which is nice for looking for solutions.

But anyway, thanks and good luck. Really appreciated. :)