build_mac & build_windows

[nomed]

Hi dqlite team,

I am interested on building dqlite on both Windows and macOS platforms. I noticed that the canonical/raft project had some pull requests that were accepted, which included patches to support these platforms. However, it seems that after the inclusion of raft into dqlite, the necessary configurations for these platforms might be missing in the configure.ac file.

Could you please provide some information on the current status of Windows and macOS build support for dqlite?
Are there any plans to reintroduce the patches or configurations that were previously available in canonical/raft?

Thank you for your time and assistance.

[cole-miller]

Hi @nomed, we're not currently prioritizing support for macOS and Windows. However, I can look into restoring the previous state of compatibility if that regressed during the raft merge.

[nomed]

Hi,

I appreciate your willingness to look into this. I would be happy to try to contribute and help make it work on those platforms if possible.

Thank you!

[abelcha]

I was also looking to build on MacOS @nomed if you want to split the tasks

[cole-miller]

I refreshed my memory on this and I am pretty sure our build has never worked on macOS or Windows. The PRs I see to canonical/raft to support these platforms (canonical/raft#173 and canonical/raft#119) were never merged. I would be happy to make the build work on other platforms if it were a relatively small matter, but it is blocked by doing a big refactor of uv_os.c and uv_writer.c to isolate the code that uses KAIO, and that's a bigger task.

[petar-dambovaliev]

Hi dqlite team,

I am interested on building dqlite on both Windows and macOS platforms. I noticed that the canonical/raft project had some pull requests that were accepted, which included patches to support these platforms. However, it seems that after the inclusion of raft into dqlite, the necessary configurations for these platforms might be missing in the configure.ac file.

Could you please provide some information on the current status of Windows and macOS build support for dqlite? Are there any plans to reintroduce the patches or configurations that were previously available in canonical/raft?

Thank you for your time and assistance.

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