Not working on Windows (MingW)

[Revertron]

Describe the bug It starts without -password, and seems to work, but I can't send messages from Thunderbird, as yggmail doesn't want connections without password. If I try to run yggmail with -password, I get this:

[  Yggmail  ] Using database file "yggmail.db"
[  Yggmail  ] Generated new server identity
[  Yggmail  ] Mail address: 8fedf643a96bb837b36e796bf21924bd33cd27021b6092186ccecde320e8c9f9@yggmail
[  Yggmail  ] Please enter your new password:
panic: The handle is invalid.

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
        C:/msys64/home/Revertron/go/pkg/mod/github.com/neilalexander/[email protected]/cmd/yggmail/main.go:91 +0x1255

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Make go install github.com/neilalexander/yggmail/cmd/yggmail@latest in MingW64.
2. Run go/bin/yggmail.exe -peer <some peer> -password.
3. See the error.

Expected behavior It should get password from stdin.

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Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Win10, MingW64 (latest)
• Version: 20210709230215

[neilalexander]

Should hopefully be fixed in 63de5e81e477ba08734b7cf02b8b278e45f0c19c, can you please give the latest main commit a try?

[Revertron]

Am I doing something wrong?

$ go install github.com/neilalexander/yggmail/cmd/yggmail@63de5e81e477ba08734b7cf02b8b278e45f0c19c
go: downloading github.com/neilalexander/yggmail v0.0.0-20210710104255-63de5e81e477
# github.com/neilalexander/yggmail/cmd/yggmail
go\pkg\mod\github.com\neilalexander\[email protected]\cmd\yggmail\main.go:89:38: cannot use syscall.Stdin (type syscall.Handle) as type int in argument to term.ReadPassword
go\pkg\mod\github.com\neilalexander\[email protected]\cmd\yggmail\main.go:95:38: cannot use syscall.Stdin (type syscall.Handle) as type int in argument to term.ReadPassword

[neilalexander]

Which version of Go are you using?

[neilalexander]

Give 90b02ba0d63683db24ef7983732d82b7fa8fd374 a try — this might fix it.

[Revertron]

Which version of Go are you using?

go 1.16

[Revertron]

Give 90b02ba a try — this might fix it.

[  Yggmail  ] Using database file "yggmail.db"
[  Yggmail  ] Mail address: 8fedf643a96bb837b36e796bf21924bd33cd27021b6092186ccecde320e8c9f9@yggmail
[  Yggmail  ] Please enter your new password:
panic: The handle is invalid.

goroutine 1 [running]:
main.main()
        C:/msys64/home/Revertron/go/pkg/mod/github.com/neilalexander/[email protected]/cmd/yggmail/main.go:90 +0x1435

[neilalexander]

Can you try this not under mingw?

[Revertron]

Can you try this not under mingw?

There is no gcc for Windows without MingW:

go: downloading github.com/neilalexander/yggmail v0.0.0-20210710105511-90b02ba0d636
# github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3
cgo: exec gcc: exec: "gcc": executable file not found in %PATH%

[neilalexander]

I mean try running it under a regular Command Prompt or PowerShell after building the .exe. I’m wondering if there’s something special about the mingw terminal.

[Revertron]

Aha, that works. But escape symbols for coloring do not work. Isn't there a better logging library in Go to handle different terminals?