Fdroidservertools on Windows 7

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Hi,
I’m trying to use the fdroidservertools on Windows7 but I have problems to run fdroid update successfully. My Attempts so far:

  1. Using Docker Executable Image with Docker Toolbox
    • Need to configure shared folder repo in VirtualBox if it is not under “C:\Users”, see Divio Support | Divio for instructions
    • Enable symllinks for docker-machine in VirtualBox otherwise you get OSError: [Errno 30] Read Only Filesystem error:
      C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe setextradata default VBoxInternal2/SharedFoldersEnableSymlinksCreate/<NAME OF SHARED FOLDER> 1
    • OSError: [Errno 71] Protocol error while creating symlink. Seems to be a VirtualBox Bug which could be solved by running docker as admin. I can’t run anything as admin on my development machine. Therefore next Attempt.
  2. Installing fdroid via pip3
    • Create virtualenv and activate it in git-Bash
    • pip3 install fdroidserver
    • run fdroid update leads to CRITICAL: Java JDK not found! Install in standard location or set java_paths! but JAVA_HOME is set and I also set java_paths in config.
        java_paths = {
            '8': "/c/Program\ Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_31/",
        }

I assume there is some problem with how I set the path to the java sdk. But besides that I have no clue.

Does anyone has any hints or suggestions I could try? Or is someone using fdroid on Windows7 and knows how to install and configure it properly?

Thanks a lot,
Sven

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The server tools are calling out to linux-commandline tools all over the place. I think there might be support for WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) but certainly no native Windows support.

I recommend you get a virtualbox VM with Ubuntu and try it there.

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We welcome porting work for getting fdroidserver running on Windows. With luck, it’ll be only a matter of fixing some errors in the path handling. Currently, the supported way to run fdroidserver on Windows is using Windows Subsystem for Linux, which I guess requires Windows 10.

My guess is that it would be easier if you use Cygwin, but my Windows knowledge is quite old. Also, I think getting it working will be easier if you also install androguard and use froidserver v1.0.2 or newer, e.g. pip3 install androguard fdroidserver

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There isn’t any Windows paths in the Java detection routines, but setting the JAVA_HOME en var should work. You can see where the Java path is detected in the code here:

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