Adding Windows compatibility for hyperscan

[steven-t-murphy]

Discussed in #155

^{Originally posted by steven-t-murphy September 9, 2024}

Our team has been working on a project that required Hyperscan to be compatible with Windows. We modified the setup.py and created a script to enable successful builds on Windows, and we are now using Hyperscan on both Windows and Linux platforms.

We would like to contribute these changes back to the community.

Exit Criteria:

• python-hyperscan fork are both public on GitHub
• GitHub regression testing operational
• pypi updated with windows compatibility

[JaneX8]

For this reason: SAP/credential-digger#52 (comment)

I would really like to see Windows support too. to be able to use https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SAPOSS.vs-code-extension-for-project-credential-digger the plugin in VSCode.

[LucianoBAF]

@darvid

[JaneX8]

Does anyone happen to have any more information on the progress of this issue, or alternative solutions?

[darvid]

For credential digger specifically, it appears that extension supports changing the binary location as well as using a Docker container, so I would suspect it could be possible to use WSL or docker?

[JaneX8]

Ah yes. I could make that work. Thank you for that idea.