Trying to get zig-curl working on Windows, running into null ptr issues

[modern rune]

Hey, i'm trying to get zig-curl's basic example working on windows and I'm running into the following crash

zig build run
--------------------GET demo--------------------
--------------------GET with allocator--------------------
thread 15420 panic: member access within null pointer of type 'struct thread_sync_data'
zig\p\N-V-__8AAHipPQF9UuLPiaV1CtJzZIxvTN61tMGdFx8LGjIV\lib\asyn-thread.c:309:0: 0x7ff77f3decf0 in query_complete (curl.lib)
  struct thread_sync_data *tsd =

???:?:?: 0x7ffdb2866889 in ??? (WS2_32.dll)
???:?:?: 0x7ffdb2868ad2 in ??? (WS2_32.dll)
???:?:?: 0x7ffdb2868712 in ??? (WS2_32.dll)
???:?:?: 0x7ffdb2868558 in ??? (WS2_32.dll)
???:?:?: 0x7ffdb2867e1e in ??? (WS2_32.dll)
???:?:?: 0x7ffdb286a78b in ??? (WS2_32.dll)
???:?:?: 0x7ffdb286a6e4 in ??? (WS2_32.dll)
???:?:?: 0x7ffdb2869f48 in ??? (WS2_32.dll)
???:?:?: 0x7ffdb3841d08 in ??? (ntdll.dll)
???:?:?: 0x7ffdb381d799 in ??? (ntdll.dll)
???:?:?: 0x7ffdb1fc7373 in ??? (KERNEL32.DLL)
???:?:?: 0x7ffdb381cc90 in ??? (ntdll.dll)

any ideas as to what could be causing this?

[rancid rock]

Are you on windows windows ? or windows WSL ( Windows Subsystem Linux ) ?

[modern rune]

windows windows

[rancid rock]

I think it's your problem

my personal advice for right now and for the future : switch to Linux.

my immediately actionable advice : try WSL

but ultimately, just switch to Linux. It will save you so much time

[modern rune]

I don't mind using WSL or Linux, I used to use Arch daily for a couple of years and I've been thinking about getting into Nix. Sadly the "target audience" ™️ (nobody is reach going to use it) is something like 75% windows users, 20% mac users and 5% Linux users

[rancid rock]

try WSL for your issue and see if that fixes it 🙂

[cosmic lava]

You might want to use https://github.com/allyourcodebase/curl and cimport

zig-curl only has ci for Linux and macOS so I’m not certain that it would work on windows

[cosmic lava]

But this does

[modern rune]

I did give it a shot but had some issues with @import and I didn't look into solving them too much 😆 it was something along the lines of curl not being in root module, extremely likely a skill issue on my part

[cosmic lava]

oh you need to cImport it

since there aren’t bindings, just headers

Usage would just be the same usage as in C

[modern rune]

Ohh I see. So I would still need curl/curl.h?

[cosmic lava]

Yeah but the package links it for you

not links sorry

Includes it

Once you linkLibrary the curl headers become available for cImporting

[modern rune]

Ohhh I seeeee