Targeting windows cross-compile: can't find file 'File/stat'

[Blacksmoke16]

Following the guide at https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/wiki/Porting-to-Windows.

Compiling the Hello World program using bin/crystal build --cross-compile --target x86_64-pc-windows-msvc hello_world.cr throws the following error:

Error in hello_world.cr:1: while requiring "prelude"

puts "Hello world!"
^

in src/prelude.cr:28: while requiring "string"

require "string"
^

in src/string.cr:4338: while requiring "./string/*"

require "./string/*"
^

in src/string/builder.cr:1: while requiring "io"

require "io"
^

in src/io.cr:1216: while requiring "./io/*"

require "./io/*"
^

in src/io/file_descriptor.cr:2: while requiring "crystal/system/file_descriptor"

require "crystal/system/file_descriptor"
^

in src/crystal/system/file_descriptor.cr:1: expanding macro

{% if flag?(:win32) %}
^

in macro 'macro_94431958465936' /home/george/Desktop/crystal-master/src/crystal/system/file_descriptor.cr:1, line 2:

   1. 
>  2.   require "./win32/file_descriptor"

while requiring "./win32/file_descriptor"
in src/crystal/system/win32/file_descriptor.cr:1: while requiring "File/stat": can't find file 'File/stat'

If you're trying to require a shard:
- Did you remember to run `shards install`?
- Did you make sure you're running the compiler in the same directory as your shard.yml?

require "File/stat"

It seems the the win32 FileDescriptor class didnt get updated to use File::Info vs the old File::Stat

[straight-shoota]

Windows file handling is still in the works, see #5623

[Blacksmoke16]

👍 Gotcha. Should the wiki be updated to say like hey this wont work until this is completed?

[straight-shoota]

The wiki page is about porting to Windows, so it should be clear, that you can't expect everything to work. It also links #5430 as reference to current state of development.

[RX14]

This used to work, but I broke it in #5584. My bad, it's fixed in #5623

[Blacksmoke16]

Imma close this as the fix was merged.