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Is this a Windows-only solution or does this also work on Linux/Mac somehow?

• jchw 6y ago
  Windows-only; Windows is really the only platform where I am concerned about making the binary very self-contained anyways. On Linux/BSD package management makes the GTK-based solution pretty reasonable. On macOS I think the webview/webview solution is already self-contained. What I'd like is to help make upstream webview/webview more self-contained somehow, but for now a possible approach is to just use go-webview2 for Windows and then webview/webview for everything else. My approaches to lower dependencies may not be accepted upstream webview/webview: direct bindings to Webview2 mean no EdgeHTML fallback + code duplication from the C bindings, and go-winloader is (WIP, it doesn't even work yet) a fairly complex piece of code that would be an additional dependency. (Just so it's clear, I do actually want to make a concerted effort to try to support an EdgeHTML fallback, but it will effectively be based on directly binding to MSVC ABI from Go, and therefore will be a lot uglier than the current Webview2 code that just deals with COM interfaces directly.)
  • mmargerum 6y ago
    Why don't you just use walk if you only need windows. https://github.com/lxn/walk https://github.com/lxn/walk
    • jchw 6y ago
      I do want all platforms. I just made a solution that can be used on one of the platforms as an alternative.