Windows Build would be nice too

[ullenboom]

Windows Build would be nice too

[jkennerley]

Me too!

Getting this when trying in windows terminal preview an after

$ go install github.com/sammcj/gollama@latest

$ gollama

Loading config from: .config\gollama\config.json
Error initializing logging: open /.config/gollama/gollama.log: The system cannot find the path specified.

[sammcj]

Hey, This tool is designed for Linux/macOS. If there's someone that has a simple workaround for windows and wants to submit a PR I'm happy to have a look at it but in general I don't have plans to support Windows.

[Jonseed]

I got it to install on Windows 11. Here is what I did after debugging:

1. Install Miniconda and Git, or already installed.
2. Open Git Bash (needed for the Unix commands make build uses later)
3. Make a conda environment: conda create -n gollama
4. Activate the environment: conda activate gollama
5. Install go and make into the env: conda install -c conda-forge go make
6. Change folders to where you want to install Gollama.
7. git clone https://github.com/Gaurav-Gosain/gollama.git
8. cd gollama
9. go get
10. Only if you've changed the default location of your conda environments, set GOROOT to where Go is installed in Miniconda:
    export GOROOT=/path/to/your/conda/envs/gollama/go
11. Edit /gollama/config/config.go and add this to the beginning of the LoadConfig() function, currently on about line 72, so it can properly find your Windows user home directory:

    // Determine the home directory based on the OS
    homeDir := os.Getenv("HOME")
    if homeDir == "" {
        homeDir = os.Getenv("USERPROFILE") // For Windows
    }

13. Edit the viper.AddConfigPath line a few lines down to use the new homeDir variable: viper.AddConfigPath(filepath.Join(homeDir, ".config", "gollama"))
14. make build
15. Start Gollama in Git Bash: ./gollama (although the TUI is quite off in Git Bash)
16. or, Start Gollama in command prompt: gollama. The TUI looks much better here.

I think that got it running for me on Windows. Hope it helps. Of course, you can use your favorite LLM to debug if it doesn't work for you.

[sammcj]

Thanks for sharing @Jonseed!

FYI - It shouldn't need anything to do with conda - conda is for Python applications.

I'll look into adding the homeDir check for windows shortly :)

[Jonseed]

Sure! Conda was just to easily install and isolate the go and make packages. I know you can install go in Windows. You can install make with chocolatey, and probably other methods, but that seemed like more work than just using conda which I was already used to.