Is it possible to use bimg on Windows?

[Rusinas]

Bimg looks like a great package and exactly what I was looking for, but installation looks a littble bit tricky, especially on Windows. I don't understand how to provide necessary dependencies, which are libvips and C compiler :( Is there any manual for it?

[margen2]

@Rusinas

install https://www.msys2.org/
use this link for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30069830/how-to-install-mingw-w64-and-msys2

On the MSYS2 terminal, you want to install pkg-config:
pacman -S pkg-config

Install libvips, but you need exactly this version:
https://github.com/libvips/libvips/releases/tag/v8.12.0
add it to your path and run:
vips --version

Then, run on cmd:
set PKG_CONFIG_PATH=C:\Users\You\Path\To\vips-dev-8.12\lib\pkgconfig

Confirm that it worked by running:
pkg-config --list-all

Now you should be able to use bimg.

[Rusinas]

@margen2 OH MY GOD THANK YOU I GOT THIS WORKING

Also... This is unrelated, but I don't think it worth creating another topic: while I was trying to solve this problem, I've tried to run everything inside of a docker container and the problem there was that I had to disable cgo for some reason (ENV CGO_ENABLED=0). If I disable it, errors was in bimg:

#11 2.353 # github.com/h2non/bimg
#11 2.353 /go/pkg/mod/github.com/h2non/bimg@v1.1.9/image.go:93:49: undefined: Gravity
#11 2.353 /go/pkg/mod/github.com/h2non/bimg@v1.1.9/image.go:133:29: undefined: Watermark
#11 2.353 /go/pkg/mod/github.com/h2non/bimg@v1.1.9/image.go:139:34: undefined: WatermarkImage
#11 2.353 /go/pkg/mod/github.com/h2non/bimg@v1.1.9/image.go:152:26: undefined: Angle
#11 2.353 /go/pkg/mod/github.com/h2non/bimg@v1.1.9/image.go:181:31: undefined: Interpretation
#11 2.353 /go/pkg/mod/github.com/h2non/bimg@v1.1.9/image.go:202:27: undefined: Options
#11 2.353 /go/pkg/mod/github.com/h2non/bimg@v1.1.9/image.go:212:29: undefined: ImageMetadata
#11 2.353 /go/pkg/mod/github.com/h2non/bimg@v1.1.9/image.go:218:35: undefined: Interpretation
#11 2.353 /go/pkg/mod/github.com/h2non/bimg@v1.1.9/image.go:234:25: undefined: ImageSize
#11 2.353 /go/pkg/mod/github.com/h2non/bimg@v1.1.9/resize.go:11:27: undefined: Options
#11 2.353 /go/pkg/mod/github.com/h2non/bimg@v1.1.9/resize.go:11:27: too many errors

But if I didn't I will get this error, even though the container build successfully:
standard_init_linux.go:228: exec user process caused: no such file or directory

[margen2]

You need cgo enabled to use bimg, you won't be able to run it with CGO_ENABLED=0.
As for the docker issue, it seems to be related to docker and not libvips or bimg. It may be an issue with CRLF/LF:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68881023/docker-standard-init-linux-go228-exec-user-process-caused-no-such-file-or-dir
I also spent too much time trying to make it work 😅

[etareduction]

@margen2 After all of that I'm still getting fatal error: vips/vips.h: No such file or directory. When i run pkg-config --list-all it shows vips in the list.

[margen2]

@etareduction I have just tried following those steps on a fresh win10 computer and it worked as expected. I remember seeing this error while trying to use a different version of libvips, I used this version: https://github.com/libvips/build-win64-mxe/releases/download/v8.12.0/vips-dev-w64-all-8.12.0.zip and make sure to uninstall any other version you may have left.
With go 1.20 cgo may be disabled on your machine, confirm that it is set to CGO_ENABLED=1.

[etareduction]

@margen2 Yeah, I've installed only version 8.12.0 and i'm sure cgo is enabled.
Edit: Now when i looked at it, it seems I've installed web version, not all. Can that be a problem? I would like to use web one cause that's what i would use in production anyways.

[margen2]

@etareduction I would at least try again with the all version just to confirm.

[etareduction]

@etareduction I would at least try again with the all version just to confirm.

I'm not sure if i could find time for that right now, pretty busy at my project. For the time being, I've workaround this issue by using WSL and installing libvips from apt.

[tinkerbaj]

For me it is the same with all, this is what I get

[tinkerbaj]

OK, this is how I fix it. I use WSL and try to run it I get the same thing. then I install pkg-config I get another error something like pkg-config vips vips vips
and I install libvips-dev and it work now :)