when will windows be supported

[Super1Windcloud]

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when will windows be supported

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[SomeoneToIgnore]

Consider asking generic questions in https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions next time.

Windows support is released when the time comes.

Currently, no work in that area is done or planned by Zed team, the whole development happens thanks to our great community contributors.

[FinnT730]

If you know how to compile Rust, you can compile it yourself. I have seen some already do it, but they have not shared the executable.
100% possible to do from source, but some things might not work well

[jackTabsCode]

A guide is provided here:
https://zed.dev/docs/development/windows

It's pretty simple to build Rust applications! I recommend you build for release.

[ZeyadMoustafaKamal]

Yeah I did it and it works very well. Doesn't this mean that Windows is actually supported or what do you think ?

[SomeoneToIgnore]

I think you should define "supported" and do a small research before asking:

• https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+windows
• https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+windows

Zed team does not support Windows and does not provide Windows builds or auto updates.

But it does work under Windows indeed, and indeed very well in comparison to the previous year.

[jackTabsCode]

Yeah I did it and it works very well. Doesn't this mean that Windows is actually supported or what do you think ?

It's not supported. It does work, but not all of the features are there, and it crashes somewhat frequently.

[malisipi]

You can install Zed from msys2 as prebuild binary.
A guide is here: https://zed.dev/docs/development/windows#installing-from-msys2

Since Windows is not supported as officially, you may encounter with some bugs.

[c16a]

@herawais you can build Zed for Linux yourself. https://zed.dev/docs/development/linux

[deevus]

There are also nightly builds available via Scoop:

scoop bucket add versions
scoop install versions/zed-nightly

[jmoraispk]

Best answer. Took me <5min. Thanks.

[jmoraispk]

If a Zed developer passes by... please add this to the instructions.