Compiling on WIndows

[aleex1848]

i have no clue about rust, but i tried like this:

• install rust using rustup
• compile like described for MacOs in the docs

git submodule init
git submodule update
cargo build

this results in:

error: failed to run custom build command for `yubikey-provision v0.1.8 (C:\Users\alex\Downloads\defguard-yubikey-provision)`

Caused by:
  process didn't exit successfully: `C:\Users\alex\Downloads\defguard-yubikey-provision\target\debug\build\yubikey-provision-d1f5323220e834e6\build-script-build` (exit code: 1)
  --- stdout
  cargo:rerun-if-changed=proto/worker/worker.proto
  cargo:rerun-if-changed=proto/worker

  --- stderr
  Error: Custom { kind: Other, error: "protoc failed: google/protobuf/empty.proto: File not found.\r\nworker.proto:3:1: Import \"google/protobuf/empty.proto\" was not found or had errors.\r\nworker.proto:27:40: \"google.protobuf.Empty\" is not defined.\r\nworker.proto:29:39: \"google.protobuf.Empty\" is not defined.\r\n" }
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...

i downloaded protobuf from here https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/releases/tag/v25.2

This also includes a directory called "includes" which has some google stuff in it. I copied this directory to the root folder of the cloned yubikey-provision repo but this changes nothing.

Can you please give me a hint on compiling for windows?

I already tried using docker, ubuntu-in-vm and now out of desperation i'm trying to compile for windows

[filipslezaklab]

Hello @aleex1848
I am sorry to hear you have issues with compiling. As for windows, there is not much required to compile this program. I use scoop to install protobuf compiler. You can try scoop install protobuf. Make sure to clone repository with the --recursive flag and it should compile without issues. I developed rust version of the provisioner on Windows and I don't think I had any special dependencies in place for it to work. You can check setup for compilation on Debian in Dockerfile.