Development on Windows 10

[razorness]

This is no issue, just information for users who want to use this package in a project while developing in a windows environment:

• Install Linux Subsystem (Ubuntu)
  • You should use 18.04 when Windows is not upgraded to Win10 2004 with WSL2: Ubuntu 20.04 and WSL 1
• Start Ubuntu Shell
• Install Go as described on golang.org
• Install needed packages
  • Ubuntu 18.04: apt install build-essential pkg-config glib2.0-dev libexpat1-dev libtiff5-dev libjpeg-turbo8-dev libgsf-1-dev libexif-dev giflib-tools librsvg2-dev libpoppler-glib-dev libgsf-1-dev libtiff-dev libfftw3-dev liblcms2-dev libpng-dev imagemagick libwebp-dev libgif-dev
  • Ubuntu 20.04: apt install build-essential pkg-config libexpat1-dev libvips-dev
• For 20.04 not needed: Download current source tarball from https://github.com/libvips/libvips/releases
  • Follow Instructions from Building libvips from a source tarball
  • Most optional dependencies for basic support of common use cases should be already installed
    • libimagequant gets available with Ubuntu 20.04
• Go to your project path f.e. cd /mnt/c/delve/cool-project/
• Exec go get -u
• Exec go build
• Exec your binary

If you are using Goland, you can just set C:\Windows\System32\bash.exe as Shell path in your terminal settings. For debug sessions, you will have to use Go remote configuration.

[fess932]

there is no way to do without wsl?

[razorness]

You can try out MSYS2 but it will be tricky. I spent hours without success. Using WSL is a very clean and convenient solution. Another solution would be using a normal virtual machine. You can use X2go to open your IDE like a windows application which is actually running in your virtual machine.