Most Daedalus users are on Windows.
How to run Windows
These are some options for running your code on Windows without having to boot your system into Windows.
Setting up a Windows 10 VirtualBox
See the PowerShell script iohk-setup.ps1 for a semi-automated way of getting a development and testing environment for Windows 10.
Using GitHub pipelines
GitHub (a division of Microsoft) allow you to run CI actions on Windows for free.
Use runs-on: windows-latest in the pipeline file.
Renting a Windows VM in the cloud
Amazon Web Services have Windows AMIs that you can spin up. Windows Server 2016 is similar to Windows 10 (Wikipedia).
Ask devops for AWS credentials for the IOHK development account.
Setting up RDP and the initial password is a bit of a pain.
Building for Windows
cross-compiling for windows
phyx ghc packages on choco
Windows/Haskell Issues
TODO: Document the issues that we commonly encounter when developing Haskell code for windows.
terminating processes
path separators
forbidden filenames
temp directories
file locking (exclusive access)
io with the ghc rts (i.e. deadlocks)
filesystem mtime resolution
Misc
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- install these firewall rules to prevent windows update downloads and other tracking.
Questions
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How to set up a SSH server on Windows 10 with Powershell?
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How to set up a WSL installation with a Powershell script?
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Does Nix work under WSL? WSL2?