Error when compiling for WASM (and other unsupported targets) #32
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Motivation
A project I work on (snarkOS) uses this crate (through
self_update). We have certain features that do not compile on WebAssembly. There's unfortunately not a nice way to set up these conflicts in Cargo or build.rs.When they build those features, they get a fairly useless error that does not indicate anything related to wasm.
So, I thought it would be best to add a check in this crate, as it only seems to support unix and windows. I also found a few typos in
lib.rsthat the PR fixes.Outcome
Before, you get a fairly cryptic error:
With this change, it simply prints: