Windows installation problems

[branneman]

After a lot of trying, I found I needed exactly these steps on Windows before I got Genghis to run:

1. Install Ruby 2, x64
   inside a directory without spaces

2. Install Ruby DevKit, instructions here
   inside a directory without spaces

3. Install extra dependencies:

   gem install genghis
   gem install windows-pr
   gem install win32-process.
   

4. Run Genghis:

   genghisapp
   

5. Open http://localhost:5678/ if it's not opened automatically.

Thoughts?

[bobthecow]

Honestly, you got a lot farther than I ever did. I always just gave up and used the PHP version on Windows :)

Want to add a wiki page about it?

[branneman]

Done :) You might want to link to this page from your root level readme.md maybe, so it's easier to find for Windows users. I myself normally don't check the wiki but tend to read the readme and just google it.

https://github.com/bobthecow/genghis/wiki/Howto-install-Genghis-on-Windows

[branneman]

One quick-fix you can already do, is of course add the gems windows-pr and win32-process as dependencies, so they're installed automatically whenever someone does gem install genghis

[bobthecow]

Unfortunately it looks like there's still no way to add platform-specific gem dependencies without requiring them for everyone else, so I won't be doing that.

I think the accepted way to do this is to created a separate version of the gem especially for Windows users. Because they're special ;) I'll look into that.

[bobthecow]

Okay, I just pushed a change that lets me build and push windows-specific gems. Those gems will have dependencies win32-process and windows-pr, so we could drop number 3 from the instructions above (after the next release).