Clarification for the Newbies: Windows?

[eXDax]

I've used just a couple of apps from GitHub now and they've all come with windows binaries (.exe). Freewheeling sounds like a nice software package and I would love to try it out on my multiple Windows devices. However, I was puzzled to find Windows not mentioned in the list of OS-specific packages. I'm trying to make sense of this and can think of a few possibilities as to what the situation is:

1. None of the users of this software have so far been Windows users and thus a Windows-specific package has not been created due to no requests
2. It is assumed knowledge among the developer community that one of the existing OS-specific packages will work as-is on Windows systems
3. Windows users are required to compile it themselves
4. It was never intended for this software to be run on any Windows systems or the Windows OS is hostile to this software
5. Something else?

Can someone please clarify what's required to run Freewheeling on Windows?

[bill-auger]

freewheeling was made for gnu/linux systems - it supports JACK audio only - with a bit of tweaking, it could probably compile on windows, but probably no one has tried the relationship between users and developers is very different in the *nix world - developers of gnu/linux software normally do not publish binaries; and users would not ask for them - gnu/linux users normally get all of their software directly from their distro, not from the developers (similar to mobile phone "app-stores") those OS_specific packages are made by the distros for their users; and the distros decide which software is interesting enough to package - developers generally play no role in delivering software to users, and need not be concerned with bug reports from users who did not compile themselves if users of a distro package have problems with the software, they normally report the bug to their distro - the distro packager usually can fix the bug with no assistance from the developer - if the distro packager discovers that the bug is present in the upstream code-base, then the distro packager would report the bug to the developers i suggest that you install a distro, specialized for audio-production, such as librazik, ubuntu-studio, avlinux, etc, and start exploring the audio tools available to *nix users - you could also try a LiveISO (super easy) - you should be able to install freewheeling directly from the LiveISO https://librazik.tuxfamily.org/doc3/manuel/installer_librazik/install-live/en another advantage of using a specialized audio distro, is the community of users, who can help you to get familiar with the system and audio tools https://web.libera.chat/?nick=LZK-visiteur-?#librazik