Why is this skipped on windows now?

[scopatz]

@CJ-Wright - It seems like this is skipped now

[CJ-Wright]

I'm not certain why that change was made (despite me making it). Feel free to add it back. (I presume that that version had issues building for windows, but I can't be certain).

[jakirkham]

I think we rely on Graphviz to build Windows binaries for us, which we repackage. While they built one for 2.38.0, I don't believe they built one for 2.40.1. Since building from source on Windows has been non-trivial, I think we came to a consensus to push out 2.40.1 for the platforms that support it (skipping Windows).

At this point, I think we would need to build Graphviz from source on Windows. Though they did add CMake support ( #11 ), which should make it easier (if someone is wanting to pursue that 😉)

[jarrodmillman]

The Windows binaries for Graphviz 2.44 are available here:

• https://www2.graphviz.org/Packages/stable/windows/10/cmake/Release/x64/

It looks like they've improved the Windows build/deployment process (so hopefully the binaries will continue to be available for future releases):

• https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/-/merge_requests/1438

[magjac]

Yes, and we are continuing to improve the build process. See e.g. https://gitlab.com/graphviz/graphviz/-/merge_requests/1529.

[h-vetinari]

Was surprised that this is not building for windows anymore when I casually came across the recipe.

Might give it a shot to build it if I find some time...

[jakirkham]

Now building from source(!) on Windows with PR ( #59 )