Not an issue, per se, but is there any chance of getting this to run on Windows? about samrewritten HOT 4 CLOSED

I think your best bet would be a vm

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Hi Ben,

To add details to @telans 's comment, a VM would not work unless you run Steam in the same VM.

Without getting into details, SamRewritten uses functions and Steam files that are specific to unix systems.

Windows compatibility would definitely be a plus, but would require rewriting a significant part of the code with Windows-specific functions I have no knowledge of nor experience with.
If you have experience with Windows programming you can try reimplementing the parts of the code using Windows system calls, and using the Windows Steam binaries, I'd be happy to review pull requests!

Please let me know if you have any comment suggestion

Sorry to be disappointting, but thank you for your feedback!

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I agree with Paul; the developers have no plans for making SamRewritten compatible with Windows, but we're open to PRs. You'd have to redo some filesystem accesses and the backend for interacting with Steam, which you could look to SAM on how to do that. The other libraries SamRewritten uses should be crossplatform.

Some other alternatives you might try in addition to a VM (guaranteed to work) are WSL2 with Linux Steam running inside the same container with either X-forwarding or the upcoming WSL2 GUI support.

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