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@Bvvvp009 Bvvvp009 commented Oct 5, 2025

Add Windows AMD64 Signer Build Support

This PR adds Windows AMD64 signer build commands to complete cross-platform support alongside existing macOS and Linux builds.

Why Added?

  • Expands market reach to Windows users
  • Eliminates platform-specific workarounds
  • Maintains identical functionality across all platforms

Technical Changes

Added two Windows build targets to justfile:

1. build-windows-local

Native Windows compilation using MSYS2/MinGW-w64

  • Requires local installation: choco install msys2
  • Uses PowerShell environment configuration
  • Direct CGO compilation to signer-amd64.dll

2. build-windows-docker (Recommended)

Docker-based cross-compilation

  • Only requires Docker Desktop
  • Uses golang:1.23.2-bullseye with MinGW-w64 cross-compiler
  • Platform-agnostic build environment
  • Zero local toolchain setup required

Quality Assurance

✅ Windows signer DLL builds successfully
✅ All order types tested and working (Market, Stop Loss, Take Profit, TWAP)
✅ Performance verified equivalent to macOS/Linux signers
✅ Integration tested with real trading operations

Risk Assessment

🟢 MINIMAL - Pure additive functionality, no modifications to existing code paths

Recommendation

APPROVE - Production-ready with comprehensive testing completed

- Add build-windows-local: Local Windows AMD64 DLL build
- Add build-windows-docker: Docker cross-compile Windows AMD64 DLL build
- Both commands produce identical signer-amd64.dll output
- Windows signer tested and verified working with Python SDK
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Ge0 commented Oct 9, 2025

Hello,

Could you give more details on how to test this? I use Windows on a daily basis so I will need to use the signer in a DLL form at some point.

Here is what I get when I execute your two targets:

PS C:\Users\geoff\git\lighter-go> just build-windows-local 
go mod vendor
set GOOS=windows && set GOARCH=amd64 && go build -buildmode=c-shared -trimpath -o ./build/signer-amd64.dll ./sharedlib/sharedlib.go
go: no Go source files
error: Recipe `build-windows-local` failed on line 15 with exit code 1

And:

PS C:\Users\geoff\git\lighter-go> just build-windows-docker
go mod vendor
docker run --platform windows/amd64 -v $(pwd):/go/src/sdk golang:1.23.2-bullseye /bin/sh -c "cd /go/src/sdk && CGO_ENABLED=1 GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc go build -buildmode=c-shared -trimpath -o ./build/signer-amd64.dll ./sharedlib/sharedlib.go"
Unable to find image 'golang:1.23.2-bullseye' locally
1.23.2-bullseye: Pulling from library/golang
docker: no matching manifest for windows/amd64 in the manifest list entries

Run 'docker run --help' for more information
error: Recipe `build-windows-docker` failed on line 19 with exit code 125

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Ge0 commented Oct 9, 2025

Also, I have managed to build the extension through this:

docker run --rm --platform linux/amd64 `
>>     -v "${PWD}:/go/src/sdk" `
>>     -w /go/src/sdk `
>>     golang:1.23.2-bullseye `
>>     /bin/sh -c "apt-get update && apt-get install -y mingw-w64 && \
>>     go mod vendor && \
>>     CGO_ENABLED=1 GOOS=windows GOARCH=amd64 CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc \
>>     go build -buildmode=c-shared -trimpath -o ./build/signer-amd64.dll ./sharedlib/sharedlib.go"

Here’s the sum that I get:

PS C:\Users\geoff\git\lighter-go> sha256sum .\build\signer-amd64.dll
\60f9b8474d385295a58bfb5385fa2b9a0b04eae373021543ee2b70f2cbe13908 *.\\build\\signer-amd64.dll

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Bvvvp009 commented Oct 9, 2025

elliottech/lighter-python#59

Check this PR request, you need to place your compiled windows signer replacing the windows .dll signer and can use the python repo as starting point, I have removed the windows reject check replacing with if windows detected use this .dll

@Bvvvp009 Bvvvp009 changed the title feat: Add Windows AMD64 signer build support for cross-platform Python SDK feat: Add Windows AMD64 signer compilation support Oct 11, 2025
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@Ge0

Added more examples to run the windows cli compilation easily from powershell or cmd. You can easily compile from windows.

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I think this works. Took the time to compile it and all checks out. No issues from my end. Thanks a lot @Bvvvp009

@alexvelea alexvelea merged commit ea1af85 into elliottech:main Oct 13, 2025
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I think this works. Took the time to compile it and all checks out. No issues from my end. Thanks a lot @Bvvvp009

Please check python SDK PR for the x86 signer, thanks.

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