Please provide Windows build

[yarikoptic]

May be recipe(s) from https://github.com/nscaife/file-windows could be of help.

[yarikoptic]

FWIW, I did manage to cross-build for windows using that recipe locally on my system: nscaife/file-windows#9 . I now wonder how to cross build (ideally using linux build of file from conda available while cross-building for windows -- although may be some patching away could help as well)

[yarikoptic]

oh, and I was pointed to the fact that there is m2-file package (recipe: https://github.com/conda/conda-recipes/blob/master/msys2/m2-file/meta.yaml) from msys2 channel... 3 yo and contains:

$> tar -xjvf m2-file-5.25-2.tar.bz2 
info/index.json
info/files
info/paths.json
info/about.json
info/recipe/bld.bat
info/recipe/meta.yaml.template
info/recipe/meta.yaml
Library/usr/share/licenses/file/COPYING
Library/usr/share/man/man3/libmagic.3.gz
Library/usr/include/magic.h
Library/usr/lib/python3.4/site-packages/magic.py
Library/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/magic.py
Library/usr/share/man/man5/magic.5.gz
Library/usr/share/man/man1/file.1.gz
Library/usr/bin/file.exe
Library/usr/lib/libmagic.dll.a
Library/usr/bin/msys-magic-1.dll
Library/usr/share/file/magic
Library/usr/share/magic
Library/usr/share/misc/magic
Library/usr/share/misc/magic.mgc

[yarikoptic]

ok,

• since cross-building isn't supported on conda-forge -- https://github.com/nscaife/file-windows approach is no good
• since "We don't support mixing MinGW and MSVC packages." using m2-file for python-libmagic feedstock in Use m2-file package for windows python-magic-feedstock#13 - no good

and we ending up with adopting the MSVC recipe (using cmake) from https://github.com/julian-r/file-windows -- any takers? ;)

[h-vetinari]

Interested in this as well in the context of conda-forge/python-magic-feedstock#9 --> diffoscope