Documentation for Windows can do with some clarification

[StephanBijzitter]

I downloaded the pre-built binary and while I did read that it was a pre-build binary, my brain didn't exactly connect the dots and I tried to use it as if it were an installer. Took me a good few minutes before the "Oooohhhhh!" moment finally came.

I'm not sure if this is possible, but when double clicking jtd-infer.exe a terminal/command-prompt window opens and it's blank. Perhaps a message could be added there?

Either way, thanks for this tool. Works like a charm!

[ucarion]

I can look into this, but it might be a challenge. The issue is that I'm using a cross-compiler to generate the windows executable, and I'm not sure it's easy to add windows-specific code.

Maybe a bit of documentation can cover this instead? Not sure where it'd go. I'm also not sure what the conventional way to do things in windows-land is. In unix systems, a direct cli executable is conventional.

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 12:03 PM Stephan Bijzitter @.***> wrote:

I downloaded the pre-built binary and while I did read that it was a pre-build binary, my brain didn't exactly connect the dots and I tried to use it as if it were an installer. Took me a good few minutes before the "Oooohhhhh!" moment finally came.

I'm not sure if this is possible, but when double clicking jtd-infer.exe a terminal/command-prompt window opens and it's blank. Perhaps a message could be added there?

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[StephanBijzitter]

Yeah if I had downloaded the executable on my macbook I wouldn't have double-clicked it either haha, maybe a README.txt could be added to the .zip file for Windows, but I've never worked with Rust so I really wouldn't know