Windows binary

[aminya]

Why all of the operating systems have binaries but Windows doesn't?

50% of developers use Windows.
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-platforms

83% of people use Windows.

[h5rdly]

Not a Windows fan, but I'm working on cross-platform code, would actually be great if there were Windows binaries available for cling.

[ax3l]

Conda-Forge ships pre-build binary packages of cling for Windows, maintained community contributors and volunteers.
https://github.com/conda-forge/cling-feedstock/

[Cvar1984]

im looking for aarch64 binaries

[ax3l]

On Linux or Windows? Does cling even support aarch64 JIT-ing?

[h5rdly]

@ax3l It's nice that it's available there, but should conda be a prerequisite? Clang comes with binaries to all imaginable platforms.. Why wouldn't cling make an official release to help adoption?

[ax3l]

Why not, you could propose a PR that runs a nightly and tag-based GitHub Action that builds cling and uploads the build artifact.
Here is an example how to do this:

name: wheels

on:
  push:
    tags:
  release:
    types:
      - created
  schedule:
    # nightly at 1 AM
    - cron: '0 1 * * *'

jobs:
  build_wheels:
    name: Build on ${{ matrix.os }}
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        os: [macos-10.15, ubuntu-18.04, windows-2019]

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
      name: Build with CMake
      run: |
        cmake-foo here, installing into <somePrefixPath>
        zip artifacts in <somePrefixPath>
    - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v1
      name: Upload Artifact
      with:
        name: build & install
        path: <somePrefixPath>

GitHub actions provide 2 cores and can run up to 72hours. GitHub actions are x86_64 only - so the artifacts build with such a continuous delivery method will be x86_64 for the start as well.

[ferdymercury]

The standalone Cling binaries for Windows and others, and also the CI is broken at the moment: see #447 root-project/web#951