Asciinema: Windows not supported, right?

Created on 29 Oct 2013 · 12Comments · Source: asciinema/asciinema

A quick pip install test from the Github repo reveals that asciicinema doesn't work out of the box on Windows, even though it does install an .exe to the Python Scripts folder. On my Win7 machine It fails with ImportError: No module named termios.

A little searching reveals there (probably) isn't a Windows equivalent,
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/933745/what-is-the-windows-equivalent-to-the-capabilities-defined-in-sys-select-h-and-t, and that therefore asciicinema is likely not supposed to work on Windows.

It would be good if the Readme states what operating systems asciicinema is intended for / known to work on.

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maphew

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Right, it will never support Windows as Windows doesn't have pseudo-terminal, select() and other unix capabilities. The information about the supported systems is now on the homepage: http://asciinema.org

sickill on 25 Nov 2013

@sickill is it possible to support cygwin?

noisy on 10 Jun 2015

@noisy cygwin doesn't support UNIX-like pseudo-terminal so it's unlikely to make it work on Windows. All UNIX family systems (Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X), have PTYs, but Windows is a completely different OS.

sickill on 5 Jul 2015

@sickill What about https://github.com/rprichard/winpty?

masaeedu on 4 May 2017

@masaeedu feel free to experiment with it. I'm fine with someone maintaining a friendly Windows fork of asciinema. However, at this moment I'm not interested in merging any Windows specific changes into the main repository. asciicast format is documented, so as long as recording on Windows produces compatible asciicast file, the web player should be able to replay it.

sickill on 4 May 2017

@masaeedu There is Windows fork by @mattn - https://github.com/mattn/asciinema/tree/windows

sickill on 4 May 2017

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I was wrong saying "it will never support Windows" :)
It seems it now installs and works perfectly fine under Win10 (WSL): https://asciinema.org/a/123255

sickill on 3 Jun 2017

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March 28 2018,
I tried a pip install of asciinema on Windows 10, and encountered the termios error. Is this still resolvable, or where do i go to fork a compatible version?

amistele on 28 Mar 2018

@amistele see https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema/issues/150

mattn on 29 Mar 2018

@sickill Windows 10 now has an official console api, which should make Windows support require far less code. Does that change anything?

mikemaccana on 29 Oct 2018

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@mikemaccana thank for bringing this up! I think this could open the way for native Windows support. I just skimmed through the linked article, but it looks promissing 👍

sickill on 16 Nov 2018

@sickill Have you taken a look at winpty? It's README claims to work on Windows XP and later.