Works great on Windows 11 (installing from source)

[DRSDavidSoft]

Hi there, I've always wanted to install ani-cli and I just noticed I already have all of the requirements on my machine (other than fzf which I promptly installed). No need for scoop! No WSL! (I use FFmpeg at work, and use mpv/YT-DLP for general video/Youtube, ettc.)

I cloned the repo to AppData directory and wrote a small file to call it using sh.exe instead:

C:\Users\David\AppData\Roaming\ani-cli (master -> origin)
λ cat ani-cli.cmd

@SET SHLVL=2
@sh -l "%~dp0/ani-cli" %*
@SET SHLVL=

This works great with Cmder, my favorite shell. Since it uses cmd.exe under the hood with clink, the script above calls sh.exe and runs ani-cli in it. Also, Windows Terminal for the win! 👍🏻

One thing of note is the --login or -l flag which also makes the git-for-windows be prepended to PATH. This is required to make commands like sort and find from git to be preferred over their Windows counterparts which breaks ani-cli.

Demo

ani-cli-windows.mp4

[ykhan21]

@DRSDavidSoft, thanks for the info.

Scoop does cause a lot of problems now for ani-cli. scoop installs a shim which used to call git's bash but now calls wsl's bash. This shim is triggered in powershell or cmd. A normal windows installation of ani-cli isn't supposed to use wsl.

scoop for other than ani-cli works well to install and update dependencies: a proper terminal (windows terminal, cmder, wezterm, etc), git (which cmder apparently comes with), mpv, and fzf.

There is a PR to fix the scoop shim (ScoopInstaller/Extras#13342), but if that doesn't go through, we might want to remove ani-cli from scoop and suggest a manual installation.

[DRSDavidSoft]

Great info! I'm sad to say I never liked scoop personally, it doesn't give me the feeling of the great package managers such as pacman, yay, apt, dnf that I use on other systems.

I don't believe it'd be best to remove ani-cli from scoop for those people who like to use scoop though, so I'm hoping the mentioned PR goes through! 👍🏻

It doesn't make sense to use WSL's bash over native-provided ones. (P.S. As a long time Cygwin user, it's so sad that Microsoft discontinued WSL/1 which was closer to the way mingw and git for windows work, but that's just me 😄)

[ykhan21]

Also, scoop might decide to change the generated shims, breaking it again. Someone could add ani-cli to Windows msys, which has Arch’s pacman. The msys pkgbuild could be derived from Arch pacman's ani-cli pkgbuild. The msys environment is pretty isolated and shouldn't get messed up by wsl. https://www.msys2.org/dev/new-package/

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