First-Class Windows Development Environment

[jdegoes]

In the Golem project currently, Windows is not a first-class development experience. The problems are many and range from:

1. How Golem is built and tested
2. Which Rust libraries are used, and to what degree they support Windows
3. Random scripts and tools that may not support Windows fully or at all

This ticket is to enhance Golem and its dependencies so that developers who are using Windows may have a first-class development experience, without having to install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

When completed, a clean checkout of the Golem code base will:

1. Fully build with clear and simple instructions for Windows developers
2. Reliably pass all tests locally without requiring docker or WSL
3. Require no more setup for development than on Linux or Mac
4. All Golem binaries (including single executable) run without issue on Windows

Moreover, Github-based CI must be modified to automatically run tests on Windows to ensure no future regressions, so that Windows developers have an ongoing guarantee of support for development.

NOTE: It is expected that as part of this work, you will have to submit to other repositories that are neither owned nor managed by Golem. These could include, for example, wasmtime, sozu-proxy & poule, etc. The actual changes required in the Golem repository should be relatively minimal.

[jdegoes]

/bounty $5000

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Attempt	Started (GMT+0)	Solution
🟢 @uurl	Dec 25, 2024, 12:00:47 AM	WIP
🟢 @varshith257	Dec 25, 2024, 1:03:54 AM	WIP
🟢 @zelosleone	Dec 28, 2024, 4:34:31 PM	#1214

[uurl]

/attempt #1210

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[varshith257]

/attempt #1210

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[varshith257]

Following up with sozu maintainers closely to fix it in upstream

[zelosleone]

Truth to be told the major problem is wasmtime package versioning making it hard to build-test, linking version is extremely hard to pass unless default features of wasmtime is completely disabled, which could make it unable to connect on HTTP via python. But there are also at least 4 years old crates like poule that is not updated recently, I am pretty sure some golem repo code could be changed to fit the newer/more maintained crates.

[varshith257]

@zelosleone The issue of conflicting wasm appearing in both Windows and Linux after the merge of #1200. Before it worked fine without any conflicts of wasm versions. The problem stems from wasm-wave likely pulling older version of wasm as its dependency

[zelosleone]

@zelosleone The issue of conflicting wasm appearing in both Windows and Linux after the merge of #1200. Before it worked fine without any conflicts of wasm versions. The problem stems from wasm-wave likely pulling older version of wasm as its dependency

Nope, its the wit-parser that pulls the old versioning, which breaks the wit module of the golem if upgraded. 0.6.0 is p old for wit-parser crate since it went more than 5 updates from that time, so golem code needs to change and be tested that "Yeah, this proves upgrading it didnt break anything after we updated the code and it works like old"

[zelosleone]

/attempt #1210

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[varshith257]

@zelosleone The wit parser conflict, I think not under consideration of this issue. It happening with other os linux too not sure what about Mac though.

I have clearly discussed with jdegoes and vigoo for the compatibility of windows and the alternatives and following them to solve keeping in mind of future work of Golem

[zelosleone]

@zelosleone The wit parser conflict, I think not under consideration of this issue. It happening with other os linux too not sure what about Mac though.

I have clearly discussed with jdegoes and vigoo for the compatibility of windows and the alternatives and following them to solve keeping in mind of future work of Golem

Yeah I was working for 10 days on windows with golem and discussed the errors i encountered and frustration as well on discord with jdgoes. so i had a headstart, thats fine, I almost finished the PR.

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