Windows bindings

[pomadchin]

Right now we build and publish bindings only for MacOS and Linux. Recently there was some intreset in Windows bindings.
It would be nice to add the Windows crosscompilation.

[AxelSalaris]

Hi, is there any news on the Windows bindings? They'd be helpful for a project I'm currently working on.

[pomadchin]

Hey @AxelSalaris, there is been no work done due to no demand / internal requirements / interest.

I think the way to go could be to make it work with the windows-latest GitHub Actions runner, so we do automated GitHub releases.

[AxelSalaris]

Thanks for the reply @pomadchin. Is that something that I can do? (I've never used GitHub Actions and I'm fairly new to all GitHub-related services aside from the repositories) Or is it a thing you are planning on working on soon?

It'd be great to have the bindings as soon as possible :)

[pomadchin]

@AxelSalaris yes, absolutely!

• We'd need to add a windows step if it's possible, similar to these linux / macos steps.
• Forward built JNIs into the publish step (I can help you with it later)

But for now, it is possible to start with investigation of an option of lunching windows-latest jobs in a free CI tier. I think we could grab some examples from the PDAL repo.

[pomadchin]

Feel free to start up a PR and I'll try to assist as much as I can.

[AxelSalaris]

I'd be glad to do that, but I need some guidance even in how to create the Windows step.

I've currently forked the repo in my account.

[pomadchin]

@AxelSalaris ouch we're also blocked by sbt/sbt-jni#20