Issues on windows (?)

[patrick91]

We got this bug report on our docs page:

Cannot get this to run on Windows. When I issue the 'strawberry server schema' command in git bash, it just hangs and there is no message about a running server. Sure enough, the http://0.0.0.0:8000/graphql site cannot be reached.

We have tests for windows, so in theory this should work, would anyone be willing to check? maybe we can improve docs.

I wonder why it hangs

[DoctorJohn]

Just took a look at this in a VM. First I noticed that run the python command itself hangs. Running Python via winpty python as suggested on stackoverflow resolved that issue. The same solution works for strawberry as well, just run winpty strawberry server app and the debug-server runs as expected.

Note that this workaround is not needed when PowerShell is used

[jkimbo]

Is this still an issue?

[patrick91]

@jkimbo I don't think so, let's close for now 😊

[DoctorJohn]

It's on my list of things I want to add to our docs. Could help some windows users.