Windows OS Support about tink

[morambro]

Hi @Kwanghyuk-Kim

Help us help you

According to below issue and current-status on github, windows os doesn't seem to be supported by tink yet officially.

reference 1. #502 reference 2. https://github.com/google/tink#current-status

Doesn't tink support windows os yet for below languages ? is it true?

• java
  . in fact, java version seems to work on the windows os according to my test.
  . wasn't tink java supported either?
• c++
• Go

Do you have any special reason that tink will not support windows os yet?

Windows support is currently not a high priority for the team; we recently added some support for C++ in v2.0.0 (https://github.com/tink-crypto/tink-cc/releases/tag/v2.0.0). Other implementations may work on Windows, but we don't have CI coverage testing this at the moment.

[Kwanghyuk-Kim]

@morambro

thx for the answer. :)

Windows support is currently not a high priority for the team;

Is there any milestone for supporting windows os?
although priority of it will not be high, I would like to roughly know the time line for windows support. :)

[davidkhala]

+1 and look for below language support:

• python

[morambro]

Hi @davidkhala, since tink-crypto/tink-py@5b03c50, it should be possible to python3 -m pip install . from tink-py's root on MS Windows. It requires Windows Server >= 2019 on X86_64, Visual Studio 2019 >= 16.10 and protoc >=25.2 installed. This should be included in the next Tink Python release.

I am going to close this issue. In case you have other requests/feedback, please open a new issue in the appropriate repo(s) in https://github.com/tink-crypto.