`cargo install amp` doesn't work on Windows

[rocket-matt]

Termion fails to build on Windows, complaining about lacking the sys crate. Crossterm is a better alternative?

[jmacdonald]

Just to be clear, you're trying to install on Windows directly, and not via WSL? If that's the case, that's not going to work; Amp expects a POSIX-compliant OS.

[trajano]

What part of the editor makes it require a POSIX compliant OS? Is it something to do with spawning a shell command?

[GenuineSounds]

What part of the editor makes it require a POSIX compliant OS? Is it something to do with spawning a shell command?

For whatever reason the termion crate is specifically checking for a "supported" OS. It's a crate for getting terminal info, no clue why this one was chosen and even less of a clue why the author of that crate is gating the functionality behind something as naive as an OS check instead of actually checking for the programs or system calls they wanted. No doubt a system with cygwin or msys could easily have access to the calls that crate is actually making without even changing anything if not for the specific checks. (just a hunch)