Replace curl + tar on Windows

[sanisoclem]

Installation fails on windows because the download url is incorrect (.tar.xz instead of .zip):

Expected: https://ziglang.org/builds/zig-windows-x86_64-0.10.0-dev.1261+6f986298c.zip source
Actual: https://ziglang.org/builds/zig-windows-x86_64-0.10.0-dev.1030+90059a12e.tar.xz -> returns HTTP 403

[jpaquim]

Thanks for catching and reporting this, should be fixed by 1420aca

Do give it another go and let me know if it's failing anywhere else.

[sanisoclem]

Hey, thanks for looking into this.

I've tried it again, but its failing when running tar on the zip file. Log output:

 npm install -g @ziglang/cli
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path C:\ProgramData\nvm\v16.13.2\node_modules\@ziglang\cli
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c node postinstall.js
npm ERR! $ which zig
npm ERR! /mnt/c/Program Files/nodejs/zig
npm ERR! $ zig version
npm ERR! Did not detect zig in system, will be installed locally
npm ERR! $ rm -rf $'C:\\ProgramData\\nvm\\v16.13.2\\node_modules\\@ziglang\\cli\\bin'
npm ERR! $ mkdir -p $'C:\\ProgramData\\nvm\\v16.13.2\\node_modules\\@ziglang\\cli\\bin'
npm ERR! $ curl -fsSL $'https://ziglang.org/builds/zig-windows-x86_64-0.10.0-dev.1301+cb3b1dd6d.zip' | tar xJ -C $'C:\\ProgramData\\nvm\\v16.13.2\\node_modules\\@ziglang\\cli\\bin' --strip-components=1
npm ERR! xz: (stdin): File format not recognized
npm ERR! tar: Child died with signal 13
npm ERR! tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
npm ERR! curl: (23) Failed writing body (2328 != 9260)
npm ERR! ProcessOutput {
npm ERR!   stdout: '',
npm ERR!   stderr: 'xz: (stdin): File format not recognized\n' +
npm ERR!   'tar: Child died with signal 13\n' +
npm ERR!   'tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now\n' +
npm ERR!   'curl: (23) Failed writing body (2328 != 9260)\n',
npm ERR!   signal: null,
npm ERR!   exitCode: 2 (Misuse of shell builtins)
npm ERR! }
...

I should also add that It works perfectly in WSL so there is a workaround in windows.

[jpaquim]

You're right, this needs a more thorough rework to work well on Windows... As you mentioned it should work well within WSL, that's where I originally developed it 😅 But I'm not sure what the idiomatic way to do this kind of thing in Windows, might make sense to do the fetching + unzipping within node.js itself, or otherwise replace the Unixy calls with the CMD equivalent.

[calavera]

Hey folks, I opened #2 which should fix this problem. I'll appreciate it if you took a look 🙌