Windows binaries?

[elaw...@google.com]

Long ago, I compiled brotli and PGO-optimized it (https://textslashplain.com/2016/01/10/getting-started-with-profile-guided-optimization/) for Windows users who didn't want to download the sources and do it themselves.

Today I had a user ask whether I have any more recent builds compiled, and I see that the official repo now has some sort of "whl" package built on a per-platform basis, including Windows. Opening the WHL file as a ZIP file, however, I didn't see any executables within, leading me to believe this is probably only a Python-specific binary? Is there any plan to release Windows executables?

thanks!

[Evgenii Kliuchnikov]

For "snapshot" binaries we have https://bintray.com/eustas/brotli/bin/snapshot#files

Unfortunately, currently it is setup only for osx/linux artifacts. I can add it to appveyor workflow too, so windows artifacts will become available.

As for PGO - it doesn't seem to provide performance boost (in my recent experiences). But, perhaps, MSVC is much worse than other modern compilers, so it might be useful... But I have no plans for employing PGO in near future.

[Evgenii Kliuchnikov]

Now we have Windows binaries attached as artifacts to appveyor builds and also published on bintray: https://bintray.com/eustas/brotli/bin/snapshot/view/files?sort=name&order=asc#files/

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[Eric Lawrence]

Awesome, thanks!

-Eric