near-sdk-js not working on Windows

[think-in-universe]

As reported by developers, near-sdk-js is not working on Windows, e.g. build contract to base64

We'd better make the "build" command also work well on Windows.

Testing may still be an issue since sandbox is not working on Windows so far.

[ailisp]

The major challenge is we don't have a windows binary of qjsc (quickjs byte code compiler). If you have a windows machine, would you like to help us build one? (On *ix, it's built via make qjsc)

[bucanero]

The major challenge is we don't have a windows binary of qjsc (quickjs byte code compiler). If you have a windows machine, would you like to help us build one? (On *ix, it's built via make qjsc)

is this still an issue? we could try building a Windows x86/x64 binary using a MinGW environment. 🤔

[volovyks]

@bucanero I believe we want SDK to work on Windows natively if it is possible. But we should support WSL as well, not sure if it is possible to test this in CI.

P.S. I have added a test PR to track progress and errors on this issue. We need a volunteer with a Windows machine to work on this.

[exalate-issue-sync]

david.millar-durrant commented:

We need to work out whether we can use WSL for this

[ailisp]

As we discussed, @volovyks add support via WSL in #295