Does this work on windows?

[ipstone]

I am looking for a cross-platform file manager written in go, might this work on Windows machine?

[gokcehan]

@ipstone Short answer is currently it doesn't work unfortunately but it might in the future if there is enough interest.

I tried to run it on windows natively a while back ago. It was somewhat showing the ui but it wasn't really usable at all. I'm aware of following issues that needs to be dealt with:

• Waiting commands uses a posix shell command to do the waiting
• File delete/yank/paste uses cp and mv respectively
• There might be some hardcoded unix path seperators (/) in the code
• Server/Client communication is implemented with unix domain sockets

On a side note, with the Windows 10 anniversary update last month Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has become available to everyone as an optional beta feature. Ideally it would be much easier to run it on WSL. However the last time I tried, it was crashing on startup. In fact all termbox applications was crashing. The problem is most likely due to some signals used in termbox initialization. As far as I know there are some issues with other Go applications as well. If these issues are solved at some point, WSL may also become an option.

Let's keep this issue open.

[5k3105]

It seems to work with both regular win7 cmd prompt and cmder on windows.

[gokcehan]

@5k3105 It works in cmd.exe but there are still missing features such as copying files and running commands. I have never heard cmder though. I will give it a try, thanks.

[gokcehan]

I have been working on the windows support for a while. All the things mentioned here before are now fixed. There are still some minor issues with the ui on the termbox-go library which I may try to tackle at some point. I have added lfcd scripts for cmd.exe and powershell to the repository. We may also prepare different config file examples for windows, particulary for a trash or remove command. I'm closing this issue now as it has become too generic.

Also, I realized go language does not support cygwin officially, and likely WSL too, so those platforms may not be an option unless things are changed.