dgraph does not work on Windows

[abbas-zaidi]

i tried installing with Cygwin, the message that dgraph is installed but the binaries are not installed.
Opening the issue on github to track the same.

[rodamunoz]

you can create a windows executable without too much effort, you only need mingw. With gcc in your path, you just to do a go build

[janardhan1993]

@abbas-zaidi What command did you use to install on windows ?

[abbas-zaidi]

I used the below command on Cygwin:
curl https://get.dgraph.io -sSf | bash

It gave an impression that it is installed but then when i search for the binary file dgraph to start the server it was not found.

[janardhan1993]

@abbas-zaidi We don't have binaries for cygwin platform. We modified the script to throw error if we don't have binary for that platform.

You need to compile the dgraph from source if you want to run on cygwin.

[abbas-zaidi]

@janardhan1993 Not sure why you closed this, are you saying dgraph will not support windows anytime in future?

[janardhan1993]

You can compile it from source and ideally it should work on both cygwin and windows. @manishrjain or @pawanrawal can comment on supporting binaries for windows or cygwin.