Windows support

[petrisch]

Just maybe for others.
Windows is probably not supported.
After installing this is the first issue:

  File "C:\Users\patrick.joerg\pipx\venvs\vectorcode\Lib\site-packages\vectorcode\common.py", line 76, in start_server
    preexec_fn=os.setsid,
               ^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'os' has no attribute 'setsid'. Did you mean: 'getpid'?

Which is obviously not available on this platform.

[Davidyz]

Hi, thanks for reporting, I developed on Linux and forgot to check for Windows compatibility. I will put this in the documentation and see if I can find a way around this.

In the meantime, you can try starting a standalone chromadb instance and add the host (127.0.0.1 for local chromadb) and port (8000 by default, but you can use any other available port) to the configuration JSON file. In this case, the CLI should skip the code that threw the error and you should be able to use it normally.

[petrisch]

This solved that one. Now I can do a vectorecode vectorise.
That gives a

Vectorising files...: 100%|█████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████| 7/7 [00:00<00:00,  8.47it/s]
  Added    Updated    Removed
-------  ---------  ---------
      7          0          0

however i don't see that it makes a .db somewhere, and the querie crashes with a empty

  File "C:\Users\patrick.joerg\pipx\venvs\vectorcode\Lib\site-packages\chromadb\api\types.py", line 747, in validate_n_results
    raise TypeError(
        f"Number of requested results {n_results}, cannot be negative, or zero."
    )
TypeError: Number of requested results 0, cannot be negative, or zero. in query.

Don't have much time but will continue later on...

[Davidyz]

Hi sorry for the poor experience. Could you try again with 0.2.6 when you have time? It should have resolved the compatibility issues on windows.

[pidgeon777]

Hello, any update on Windows support?

[Davidyz]

Hello, any update on Windows support?

I don't personally use Windows (at least not for dev work), so it's not very high on my priority list. The current state of VectorCode on Windows is "I'm not sure how well it works, but feel free to give it a try". This is mostly because the tests don't work on Windows (mostly due to different path handling). There's an ongoing refactor of the database backend (haven't touched it for a while bc there were things that I wasn't sure how to proceed with). I'll be finishing them soon, and when that's completed, I may take another look at this.

[pidgeon777]

You are very kind, thank you for looking into this.

Is there any procedure for testing it on Windows so far? I'll also test it out and report back.

[Davidyz]

I really appreciate the offer. There are known issues in the unit tests (mostly due to different path handling on Windows, the forward/backward slashes, etc.), which I'll try to fix after the database refactoring.

Since I don't do dev work on Windows (don't even have Python and neovim on my Windows system), I can't really speak about the status quo of using VectorCode on Windows. You can try to just follow the normal installation instructions (uv tool install "vectorcode<1.0.0") and try the basic operations and see if they work (vectorise, query, etc.). You might encounter issues installing chromadb, because it has rust components that may need to be built locally (idk whether they provide pre-built wheels for Windows).