Windows platforms?

[m-baumgartner]

Is there any way we can make this work on Windows? wkhtmltopdf has Windows packages. Am I missing something here?

[unixmonkey]

If you can make it work, I'll gladly merge it in. Do you know if they need to run an installer, or if the exe alone is enough?

[soundasleep]

I had a quick go at this, my theory is that you could just extract the contents of wkhtmltox-0.12.4_msvc2015-win64.exe into the bin/ folder and then modify the contents of bin/wkhtmltopdf to match on /mingw32/

However I got stuck with Cygwin path hacks getting in the way with https://github.com/mileszs/wicked_pdf/. wicked_pdf was correctly reporting the executable path of this binary as /cygdrive/c/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/bin/wkhtmltopdf, but File.exist?("/cygdrive/c/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/2.3.0/bin/wkhtmltopdf") == false.

My Cygwin knowledge isn't strong enough to continue, so a much easier solution with wicked_pdf on Windows is to just install the Windows package, and set the path manually in config/initializers/wicked_pdf.rb:

if RbConfig::CONFIG['host_os'].match(/mingw32/)
  WickedPdf.config[:exe_path] = 'C:\\program files\\wkhtmltopdf\\bin\\wkhtmltopdf.exe'
end

[webaholik]

Is there any way we can make this work on Windows? wkhtmltopdf has Windows packages. Am I missing something here?

@m-baumgartner , I'm curious; is your Ruby application currently on Windows in production or is this request purely for dev purposes?

[pedrofurtado]

@unixmonkey I think we can close it 🤝 🍻