diff --git a/doc/todo/provide_windows_build_with_MagicMime/comment_7_d16e4fb3d0be2acd23d158272171b842._comment b/doc/todo/provide_windows_build_with_MagicMime/comment_7_d16e4fb3d0be2acd23d158272171b842._comment new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..df8797e746 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/provide_windows_build_with_MagicMime/comment_7_d16e4fb3d0be2acd23d158272171b842._comment @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="yarikoptic" + avatar="http://cdn.libravatar.org/avatar/f11e9c84cb18d26a1748c33b48c924b4" + subject="windows build with magic" + date="2020-10-22T19:32:55Z" + content=""" +FWIW, the mission of automated building of windows installer for annex with libmagic support is accomplished. + +- It is 64bit build, works on Windows 10 **but in my experience does not work on Windows 7**. [info/pain to share if interested](https://github.com/datalad/datalad-extensions/pull/40#issuecomment-713853822) +- Not sure if artifacts are publicly available [from github](https://github.com/datalad/datalad-extensions/runs/1294145386?check_suite_focus=true), but current copy could be fetched from [my personal website](http://www.onerussian.com/tmp/git-annex-windows-installer_20201022.zip). We are [thinking](https://github.com/datalad/datalad-extensions/issues/46) about organizing public consistent distribution for them +- libmagic is cross-build on Linux, based on [file-windows](https://github.com/nscaife/file-windows) with some fixups (?) in [our clone](https://github.com/datalad/file-windows) +"""]]