Add Windows support.

[bySabi]

Tested with mingw and msysgit.

[dungelin]

Can you build windows version file and upload to your github?
I am trying to build it on Windows 8.1 X64 but no success.

[ccleaud]

Hello,

The binary is already in the github repo (https://github.com/ccleaud/git-crypt).

Please have a look to git-crypt.exe, this is the file you want.

Note that I’m working on this Windows version to improve it.

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Can you build windows version file and upload to your github?
I am trying to build it on Windows 8.1 X64 but no success.

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[dungelin]

Thanks @ccleaud for the build. :)

[AGWA]

I just pushed Windows support to the 'windows' branch. The build system needs work, but it does compile with mingw-w64.

The branch is based on the 'revamp' branch which contains GPG support and which the next release will be based on. I've tested GPG support with gpg4win and it works. The revamp branch is still subject to change, so you should not use the windows branch for anything serious yet.

Thanks @bySabi and @ccleaud for the patches, but since much changed with the revamp branch it ended up being simpler to write the Windows support from scratch.

[yoavram]

I don't see a windows branch up there.

[AGWA]

Hi @yoavram, Windows support has since been merged into the revamp branch.

[yoavram]

OK, I checked out the revamp branch, opened MinGW shell, went to the git-crypto folder, and ran make.
I get:

c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.2/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lcrypto
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [git-crypt] Error 1

Any clue?

[ccleaud]

You need to build OpenSSL library first. This will produce 2 files.

You also have to put those files in you lib path in order to allow ld linking against it.

Currently only “libcrypto” is required to build git-crypt.

[yoavram]

OK, I installed OpenSSL from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/openssl.htm.
Opened MingW shell, added the folder with the OpenSSL files to the library path:

> export LIBRARY_PATH
> LIBRARY_PATH="C:/Program Files (x86)/GnuWin32/lib;LIBRARY_PATH"

then ran make. Failed with an error, to which I found the solution here: I had to add -lgdi32 to the LDFLAGS in the Makefile. Then I was able to build git-crypto.

[vorou]

hey, how is it going?
is there any guide on how to build the lib on Windows, or (better) is anybody maintaining the compiled binaries?

here's what I got:

> make
c++ -Wall -pedantic -ansi -Wno-long-long -O2 -static-libgcc -static-libstdc++ -c -o git-crypt.o git-crypt.cpp
git-crypt.cpp:35:25: fatal error: openssl/err.h: No such file or directory
#include <openssl/err.h>
^
compilation terminated.
make: *** [git-crypt.o] Error 1

[AGWA]

@vorou You need to install OpenSSL under MinGW in order to compile git-crypt. I know very little about development environments on Windows so I don't know how you do that, but there is certain to be documentation online.

It's actually pretty easy for me to cross-compile Windows binaries from Linux. Here's a Windows binary, compiled from the current HEAD: https://www.cloudmutt.com/git-crypt-3104508/git-crypt.exe

I'll probably start building official Windows binaries like this.

[vorou]

@AGWA works as magic, thanks! It would be nice if you could automate the build, so you don't have to build manually on each commit.

[vorou]

I've created a chocolatey (apt-get for Windows) package for the binary, would you mind if I upload it to the public repository?

It downloads the .exe by your link and puts it into bin folder. It is ten times more convenient to type cinst -y git-crypt then to download the file manually on each box.

Also, am I right there is no requirement to have OpenSSL installed? I though it's required, but it looks like it's working fine w/o it on a virtual box.

[AGWA]

@vorou a chocolatey package sounds great - thanks! However, don't upload it quite yet - I need to move the .exe to a more permanent URL - the current one is very temporary. I'll let you know when it's ready.

[vorou]

Roger that!

[bradwilson]

Any word on when this becomes official?

[tcastelli]

+1

[mnbeer]

Any movement on a Windows exe? Would love to use it.

[vorou]

It's actually pretty easy for me to cross-compile Windows binaries from Linux. Here's a Windows binary, compiled from the current HEAD: https://www.cloudmutt.com/git-crypt-3104508/git-crypt.exe

Found out that the link is broken, so here's a mirror.

I guess it's pretty old now, but we haven't had any problems with this version.

[mnbeer]

Thanks! I actually had managed to create a Windows build with mingw after some painful pathing issues and I have put it to use. It's existence is much appreciated, thank you.

[jaxzin]

👍

[seperman]

Any updates on this?

[mnbeer]

I have a Windows build. I can send or post somewhere. It works really well except when it doesn't. Merges tend to hammer encrypted files and it can be a bit painful undoing that. I try to merge with no-commit so there is less damage to rewind when things go haywire. I have to resort to "re-unlocking" and running git-crypt fix fairly frequently.

[cniweb]

+1

[radistao]

+1
any updates?

[bijakatlykkex]

I have created a fork which builds the windows version using appveyor and pushes the result back to github automatically: https://github.com/LykkeCity/git-crypt/releases . There are a few changes/additions, which could be tracked from commits tab.

[cniweb]

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[030]

https://stackoverflow.com/a/48529709/2777965

[andresmoschini]

😴 💤 💤

[pravin]

Any update on this?

[LMBernardo]

Any update on this?

Main branch works fine for me, just install the deps and build as described in INSTALL.md

[artmotion]

Anyway to help out on this branch?