Shellcheck: Windows Distribution.

[aadrian]

Please add a Windows distribution too.

Thank you.

[Nightfirecat]

You can install this on Windows just fine via Cabal:

cabal update
cabal install ShellCheck

[aadrian]

You can install this on Windows just fine via Cabal

No, I can't, nor can most windows users :) .

[Nightfirecat]

I've had no issues doing that on each of my Windows boxes... Can you explain a little further why that didn't work for you? What have you tried, and what did or didn't work?

[aadrian]

@Nightfirecat There's a distribution for each OS, only for Windows there's none.

I haven't asked for yet another package manager that I need to install only to be able to install what I actually needed :) . Also cabal needs to be able to get out throughout corporate firewalls, or users need to learn how to do that too :) .

[koalaman]

The distro releases are independently maintained by awesome individuals.

What's the package manager you currently use for Windows?

[aadrian]

What's the package manager you currently use for Windows?

There are no widely used package managers for Windows applications, hence the widespread use of installers when distributing them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_installation_software
Few already used with Haskell too:

• https://github.com/ndmitchell/nsis
• http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bamse

If the application consists of a single EXE file (no dependencies), than a simply zip with it will also do it.

[ksrb]

@aadrian the Chocolatey project has some traction you can submit a request for a package here.

Though I kind of have a feeling that getting something like that setup may need work from both sides Koalaman and Choco maintainers.

[koalaman]

I've convinced TravisCI to build Windows executables by running Wine in Docker (5cece759c). Builds are pushed to GCS.

The latest commit is now available on https://storage.googleapis.com/shellcheck/shellcheck-latest.zip , and I've added this to the readme.

[aadrian]

I've convinced TravisCI to build Windows executables by running Wine in Docker

https://www.appveyor.com/ is practically Travis for Widows. It's also free for open source projects.

The latest commit is now available on https://storage.googleapis.com/shellcheck/shellcheck-latest.zip , and I've added this to the readme.

This is fantastic :) !.

Thank you very much!

[theimpostor]

FWIW you can easily install cabal on windows with https://chocolatey.org/, simply run:

choco install ghc -y

Then you can do

cabal update
cabal install ShellCheck

[Kristinita]

1. Choice

If you not a Haskell developer:

    Scoop is quick solution — 5.5 MB.

else @theimpostor method:

    you need to install big dependency ghc — 180 MB.

2. Demonstration

C:\Users\SashaChernykh>scoop install shellcheck
Installing 'shellcheck' (0.4.7) [64bit]
shellcheck-v0.4.7.zip (5.5 MB) [==============================================================================] 100%
Checking hash of shellcheck-v0.4.7.zip… ok.
Extracting… done.
Running pre-install script…
Linking ~\scoop\apps\shellcheck\current => ~\scoop\apps\shellcheck\0.4.7
Creating shim for 'shellcheck'.
'shellcheck' (0.4.7) was installed successfully!

C:\Users\SashaChernykh>refreshenv
Refreshing environment variables from registry for cmd.exe. Please wait…Finished..

C:\Users\SashaChernykh>shellcheck
No files specified.

Usage: shellcheck [OPTIONS…] FILES…
  -a                --check-sourced          Include warnings from sourced files
  -C[WHEN]          --color[=WHEN]           Use color (auto, always, never)
  -e CODE1,CODE2..  --exclude=CODE1,CODE2..  Exclude types of warnings
  -f FORMAT         --format=FORMAT          Output format (checkstyle, gcc, json, tty)
  -s SHELLNAME      --shell=SHELLNAME        Specify dialect (sh, bash, dash, ksh)
  -V                --version                Print version information
  -x                --external-sources       Allow 'source' outside of FILES

Thanks.

[unixandria-xda]

The linked google storage is dead.

I'll make the same points as above: i don't want to install yet another package manager, which also requires a bunch of other stuff to be installed, so we're up to 5+ programs you have to install just to install shellcheck, and then it's not available to eg vscode by default because of the weird install location.

[unixandria-xda]

Choco itself drags in python, and various visual studio dependencies