Windows support?

[gauravagnihotri]

I am trying to execute
go run init.go in the vendor folder.
I can see that the there are many dependencies which are not met by windows for example tar and unzip.
I managed to get those files using gnuwin32, and now I am seeing issues with unzipping the gecko driver.
Anyways, it seems like the init.go script is downloading linux specific browsers which won't work in windows.

Do you have a suggestion/example to make this work in Windows?

Edit -
https://github.com/tebeka/selenium/blob/master/example_test.go#L18
Where is 'example' in this code that needs to be removed?

[minusnine]

I don't. I haven't developed in Windows in years and this code is totally untested in Windows at this point.

PRs are welcome!

[minusnine]

Where is 'example' in this code that needs to be removed?

Line 108.

[hubyhuby]

Hi @gauravagnihotri ,
Did you manage to make it work under Windows ?
If so, do you have windows code snipet to launch it ?

I tried a quick cross compile to windows from my Linux, but up to now no luck...
I always get "error starting frame buffer : exec :"Xvfb" ..." which is specific to linux world I guess.

Thanks for your help

[spaiki007]

Hi, I have bad English, sorry! My system win 10 x64, install JDK, download the latest driver and selenium-server-standalone.jar. Take an example from the official documentation.

Hi, у меня плохой английский, простите! Моя система win10x64, установи JDK, скачай последний интересующий тебя драйвер и selenium-server-standalone.jar. Возьми пример из официальной документации.

opts := []selenium.ServiceOption{
    selenium.StartFrameBuffer(),     <-- find and comment out the line / найди и закомментируй строку.
    selenium.GeckoDriver(geckoDriverPath),
    selenium.Output(os.Stderr),
}

I'm OK, у меня все работает!

Бл* почему текст жирный не убирается...

[cwchentw]

This package works on Windows, but you have to remove Unix-specific stuffs like frame buffer.

[chukonu]

To run the example test successfully on Windows 10, in addition to @spaiki007 's change, I also commented out...

c.cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{
	// Deliver SIGTERM to process when we die.
	Pdeathsig: syscall.SIGTERM, // <-- Comment out
}

...and used a geckodriver for Windows.