Mithril client does not work in Windows Power Shell

[jpraynaud]

Why

The Mithril client does not work in Power Shell (as explained in this discord thread: https://discord.com/channels/826816523368005654/1014019542504185876/1324413079731179520). This may be due to the printing of output not working properly.

What

Fix the client to work in Power Shell.

How

• Investigate the problem
• Fix the problem
• Document the fix in the website

[Alenar]

I can't reproduce on a Windows 11 23H2.

It works on powershell 7:

C:\Users\User\Documents\Mithril\bin> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major  Minor  Patch  PreReleaseLabel BuildLabel
-----  -----  -----  --------------- ----------
7      4      6

C:\Users\User\Documents\Mithril\bin> .\mithril-client --version
mithril-client 0.10.5+c6c7eba

On powershell 5 (the version bundled with windows):

PS C:\Users\User\Documents\Mithril\bin> $PSVersionTable.PSVersion

Major  Minor  Build  Revision
-----  -----  -----  --------
5      1      22621  4391


PS C:\Users\User\Documents\Mithril\bin> ./mithril-client --version
mithril-client 0.10.5+c6c7eba

It also work in the command prompt:

C:\Users\User\Documents\Mithril\bin>ver

Microsoft Windows [version 10.0.22631.4602]

C:\Users\User\Documents\Mithril\bin>mithril-client.exe --version
mithril-client 0.10.5+c6c7eba

And it work when building the code locally (here running in powershell 7):

C:\Dev\src\mithril [(2450.0)]> git status
HEAD detached at 2450.0
nothing to commit, working tree clean
C:\Dev\src\mithril [(2450.0)]> cargo run --bin mithril-client --release --features bundle_openssl -- --version
cargo 1.84.0 (66221abde 2024-11-19) running on `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc` target `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc`
    Finished `release` profile [optimized] target(s) in 0.49s
     Running `target\release\mithril-client.exe --version`
mithril-client 0.10.5

I'm currently upgrading my windows to 24H2 to see if the problem happen with this version (as it's know for being quite unstable).

[jpraynaud]

I was able to reproduce the bug with these versions:

• Microsoft Windows [version 10.0.26100.2605]
• Power Shell 5.1.26100.2161

But now it works after restarting Windows 🤔

[Alenar]

Can't reproduce on Windows 11 24H2 either.

• Windows version 10.0.26100.2605
• Power Shell 5 version 5.1.26100.2161
• Power Shell 7 version 7.4.6