Unable to build for windows

[phileagleson]

When I try to build this library with windows as a target I'm getting several errors in iter.go:

➜ GOARCH=amd64 GOOS=windows go build .
 github.com/smacker/go-tree-sitter
./iter.go:17:18: undefined: Node
./iter.go:21:21: undefined: Node
./iter.go:25:20: undefined: Node
./iter.go:30:26: undefined: Node
./iter.go:34:20: undefined: Node
./iter.go:38:32: undefined: Node
./iter.go:43:9: undefined: Node
./iter.go:46:18: undefined: Node
./iter.go:68:40: undefined: Node

When building for linux, the build succeeds as expected. I can see 'Node' is defined in bindings.go and both iter.go and bindings.go are part of the sitter package so I''m not sure why this error occurs.

[phileagleson]

In case this helps anyone else - I was able to fix this by installing a cross-compile version of gcc. I'm using Arch, but the package names should be similar on other distros:
install :

• gcc-multilib
• mingw-w64-gcc

set additional flags when building:

	GOARCH=amd64 GOOS=windows \
           CGO_ENABLED=1 \
           CXX=x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ \
           CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc \
	   go build -o bin/appName64.exe cmd/app/main.go 

[phileagleson]

After further testing, the previous method, still had issues. The app would compile fine, but when running on a Windows machine, it was missing some required dll's for the c standard library. The easiest way I found to get around this was surprisingly to use zig to compile.

https://dev.to/kristoff/zig-makes-go-cross-compilation-just-work-29ho

Using this method, I get a static binary that works on Windows and doesn't require any additional dependencies

[zimmski]

Sorry i overlooked this thread even though we can add our experience to it. (Vacation are bad for your mail queue!)

We are building https://symflower.com for Linux/MacOS/Windows for different architectures. For Windows we are using https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw which works great! I had multiple looks into Zig (did not look into the latest 0.11 release though!) and i had smaller compilation problems that were solvable but the binaries crashed in various scenarios. I tracked down most of them in open issues, don't know their current state, i just wanted to note: if your binary crashes, might be because of compiling with Zig, so please let them know.

One option that we are using is -tags=netgo,osusergo.

Your original problem #120 (comment) i can explain. AFAIK if you are cross compiling, CGO is disabled, so you need to explicitly enable it with CGO_ENABLED=1 and that you did :-)

[Owatron]

I have the same issue , can you please help me out?

[Borwe]

Whats the solution for those on Windows?

[zimmski]

I have the same issue , can you please help me out?

@Owatron @Borwe i guess https://www.mingw-w64.org/ is a compiler for Windows? Please let me know if it worked.