Windows support

[ndmitchell]

Perhaps mention in the README that because this depends on vty it won't work on Windows, see jtdaugherty/vty#119.

[maoe]

I wonder if I should switch over to a Windows-compatible library like ansi-terminal. It's much lower-level though.

[maoe]

I've added README. I'll leave this open until viewprof gets Windows support.

[maoe]

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/02/09/haskell-on-bashwsl/ may fix the issue without modifying vty.

[maoe]

I added some Docker support in https://github.com/maoe/viewprof/tree/feature/docker, which may or may not work on Windows. If anyone has Windows that can run Docker, please try Windows equivalent of the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/maoe/viewprof.git
cd viewprof
git checkout feature/docker
./docker/setup
./docker/viewprof path/to/your.prof

[igrep]

I'm trying to try the docker image, then added this commit igrep@bedeea5
But I still have a problem. Maybe same as docker-archive/toolbox#607

[maoe]

@igrep Thanks for trying this out!

So I suppose you got the invalid bind mount error as described in the ticket presumably on Windows 7 when running ./docker/viewprof, right?

I wonder if we need to tweak the -v option in ./docker/viewprof. The last comment on that issue says:

• the 'Users' directory must be spelled like that, not "users".
• the '//var/www/html' must be changed back to '/...' even though it helps when used with the -w parameter,
• you have to set explicitly the mode, which is :rw

What if you hard-code the $PROF_FILE variable such that it satisfies all three points above?

[igrep]

So I suppose you got the invalid bind mount error as described in the ticket presumably on Windows 7 when running ./docker/viewprof, right?

Yes. But appending :rw failed with this error (same as without :rw)

> ./docker/viewprof dupln-test-M2G.prof
time="2017-04-23T10:14:35+09:00" level=info msg="Unable to use system certificate pool: crypto/x509: system root pool is not available on Windows"

C:/Program Files/Docker Toolbox/docker.exe: Error response from daemon: invalid bind mount spec "C:\\Users\\Yuji\\Dropbox\\prg\\foreign\\viewprof\
\dupln-test-M2G.prof;C:\\msys64\\home\\viewprof\\--;rw": invalid mode: \msys64\home\viewprof\--;rw.
See 'C:/Program Files/Docker Toolbox/docker.exe run --help'.

[igrep]

And hard-coding did the same:

> ./docker/viewprof dupln-test-M2G.prof
time="2017-04-23T10:19:15+09:00" level=info msg="Unable to use system certificate pool: crypto/x509: system root pool is not available on Windows"

C:/Program Files/Docker Toolbox/docker.exe: Error response from daemon: invalid bind mount spec ".\\dupln-test-M2G.prof;C:\\msys64\\home\\viewprof
\\dupln-test-M2G.prof": invalid volume specification: '.\dupln-test-M2G.prof;C:\msys64\home\viewprof\dupln-test-M2G.prof': invalid mount config fo
r type "volume": invalid mount path: '\msys64\home\viewprof\dupln-test-M2G.prof' mount path must be absolute.
See 'C:/Program Files/Docker Toolbox/docker.exe run --help'.

[igrep]

I'm gonna try some of these:

• Tweak COMPOSE_CONVERT_WINDOWS_PATHS with docker-compose.
• Downgrade Docker Toolbox.

[maoe]

Thanks to @igrep, we can run viewprof using Docker. I still hope proper support for Windows is implemented in vty but we can close this for now.