Building App on Windows

The Windows build is still very early in development. Consider it highly experimental and unstable.

System requirements

Tauri requires Windows 10 (version 1803 or later) or Windows 11. (Only Windows 11 has been tested.)

sg setup and asdf are not supported on Windows so you'll have to install each dependency manually.

Git: install latest version from https://gitforwindows.org/
Go: install version used in .tools-versions from https://go.dev/dl/
Node: install version used in .tools-versions using NVM https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows
pnpm: install using PowerShell command iwr https://get.pnpm.io/install.ps1 -useb | iex
Python: install from the Microsoft Store https://www.microsoft.com/store/productId/9NRWMJP3717K
Visual C++ build tools: install with Visual Studio https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=BuildTools, select "Desktop Development with C++"
GCC: install MSYS2 from https://www.msys2.org/, then start MSYS2 UCRT64 shell, run pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-gcc, and add C:\msys64\ucrt64\bin to PATH
Rust: install 64-bit version from https://www.rust-lang.org/learn/get-started

From the Git Bash shell, run ./dev/app/build-windows.sh to build. Bundling will fail but the main EXE will be created.

Run Sourcegraph.exe, located in src-tauri\target\release.

The Troubleshoot option in the system tray does not work. You can view the logs by opening %APPDATA%\com.sourcegraph.cody\logs\Cody.log.