Can't install bun on windows

[yairyakobson]

What version of Bun is running?

1.0.1

What platform is your computer?

Windows 11

What steps can reproduce the bug?

I just get an error that it failed to install

What is the expected behavior?

No response

What do you see instead?

npm ERR! code EBADPLATFORM
npm ERR! notsup Unsupported platform for bun@1.0.1: wanted {"os":"darwin,linux","cpu":"arm64,x64"} (current: {"os":"win32","cpu":"x64"})
npm ERR! notsup Valid os: darwin,linux
npm ERR! notsup Actual os: win32
npm ERR! notsup Valid cpu: arm64,x64
npm ERR! notsup Actual cpu: x64

Additional information

Can Bun be installed on just on macOS and Linux at this point?

And what minimal version of macOS is required because I didn't see it in the documentation

[7heMech]

No one said bun was supported on windows, you need wsl.

[yairyakobson]

What is wsl?

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[7heMech]

@yair2000 Windows Subsystem for Linux
It basically lets you run linux on windows.

[AdrianoLupossa]

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is the right env to run bun on windows

[yairyakobson]

Thanks for the tip! ‫בתאריך יום ד׳, 13 בספט׳ 2023 ב-14:44 מאת ‪Adriano Lupossa‬‏ <‪ ***@***.***‬‏>:‬

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[ghiscoding]

duplicate of #43

[Hecatron]

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is the right env to run bun on windows

WSL means enabling Hyper-V
Hyper-V means that you're actually running the main OS inside a virtual machine
this can impact things such as gaming, so I've always avoided it myself.

The other option is Msys2 which sort of simulates unix api's under windows in a shell.
But it looks as if the curl command curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash doesn't work under Msys2 due to the os detection within bun picking up that it's windows and blocking it from running

[icjosh10]

No one said bun was supported on windows, you need wsl.

Except the docs literally do say that bun is supported (just in a limited capacity).

[Hecatron]

In #43 they say it's being worked on
I don't think you can ask more than that to be fair, it sounds as if the native build is still experimental.

[yairyakobson]

Ok, thanks for the update. ‫בתאריך יום ו׳, 15 בספט׳ 2023 ב-22:38 מאת ‪Hecatron‬‏ <‪ ***@***.***‬‏>:‬

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[WasathTheekshana]

Hi @yair2000 !

npm official page tells, that you need to install Bun 1.0 on WLS (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

1. Try installing WSL from windows store & on top of it install the bun
   How to install WSL

2. After that refer the bun official doc installation guide.

curl -fsSL https://bun.sh/install | bash

Bun Docs

[huangkaoya]

why bun not supported windows?

[GabrielDougherty]

On https://bun.sh/docs/installation#windows it says:

Bun provides a limited, experimental native build for Windows. At the moment, only the Bun runtime is supported.

bun
bun run

I am interested in obtaining that experimental native build rather than the WSL one.

[Hecatron]

If you search the existing messages
The main tracking issue for windows support is - #43
The pull request being worked on is - #4410

I suspect you'd have to try and manually build the source (from the pull request)
although I have no idea if it even works at this point, since I've not tried it myself

[faizov]

It's really sad that we can't use in windows directly. Can WSL affect performance?

[Anubarak]

No one said bun was supported on windows, you need wsl.

Well actually they said it in their release notes

https://bun.sh/blog/bun-v1.0#bun-more-thing

Bun provides native builds for macOS and Linux, but there's been one notable absence: Windows. Previously, to run Bun on Windows, you would need to install Windows Subsystem for Linux... but not anymore.
For the first time, we're excited to release an experimental, native build of Bun for Windows.

Sorry if I get this wrong but for this sounds like it is indeed supported. Experimental and not completed but installable at least.

[kangfredy]

hope it will works on windows

[abhishekpatelmc]

Why can't we use Bun on Windows currently?
How does JSC prevent Bun from running on Windows?

[Hecatron]

Why can't we use Bun on Windows currently? How does JSC prevent Bun from running on Windows?

if you read the above comments, it's still be worked on
I posted links to the pull request and issue where it's being worked on

[Stanzilla]

I'm confused by this as well, if there is a native build, npm should not refuse to install it. If there is not, the docs need to be updated.

[Electroid]

Please track this issue for when Windows is ready: #43 (we're actively working on it)

[JRBros2346]

It is noted in installation page that windows have runtime support. But i cant find any runtimee binaries

[fras-alfurasy]

when it's going to be supported for windows ????

[BenjaBobs]

@Fras999 see #43