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Adaptation for windows
Since 'awk' 'curl' and other requirements are readily available in PE-executable form for Windows systems, can translate-shell be adapted for a windows version using batch/powershell instead of bash ?
I'm not sure how to replace requirements with PE files. But Docker is available for the way to use translate-shell on Windows. For a instance, this project is executable on Cmd/PowerShell.
filtermap/docker-compose-trans https://github.com/filtermap/docker-compose-trans
Isn't bash just as well available on Windows 10 then? What's the point of solely removing the dependency on bash while it still has to rely on Unix-style tools like awk and curl?
Isn't bash just as well available on Windows 10 then? What's the point of solely removing the dependency on bash while it still has to rely on Unix-style tools like awk and curl?
If I'm not mistaken bash only comes with and run under wsl/cygwin/etc and has a lot ofbdependencies so it's not as compact as the other utilities. And then running it from native cmd has its uses.
I'm not sure how to replace requirements with PE files. But Docker is available for the way to use translate-shell on Windows. For a instance, this project is executable on Cmd/PowerShell.
filtermap/docker-compose-trans https://github.com/filtermap/docker-compose-trans
if the requirements are on the PATH they can be simply called as they are.
If you have gawk in PATH, you may clone the repository here and invoke it without bash at all:
> gawk -f translate.awk -- Bonjour
However, I believe this won't work on Windows native cmd if you don't run on a proper POSIX layer (Cygwin, MinGW, WSL). translate-shell was not designed for non-POSIX platforms from the very beginning: It assumes common *nix utilities such as POSIX-style echo and hexdump; you'll need to have those compiled as PE-executables too. Furthermore, things like ANSI escaped colors, will be completely messed up on a Windows console.
I'm not likely to spend time on fixing all those issues for non-POSIX systems. It makes a lot of sense for Windows users to just use WSL, I think.