Support for Windows

I personally don’t have Windows to test and am not familiar with how the chia environment there is setup but can provide guidance on the steps necessary to add such support.

Here are some jumping off points if someone wants to take over:

• We need a WIndowsLogConsumer that is analogous to the UNIX implementation in FileLogConsumer. It needs to replace the tail -F command with the analogous command for PowerShell.
  • Possibly something like Get-Content <log-file> -Tail <#-of-rows> -Wait
• Add windows_log_consumer config. See here for an example. It needs to point to default path on Windows where debug.log is stored.
• The project is using pathlib for handling the file paths. I believe this is compatible with Windows paths but needs to be tested.

I suggest doing a quick test by directly modifying the FileLogConsumer and changing the path in the config to see if there are any other showstoppers to make this work on Windows. That will already be very valuable feedback.

[skrustev]

Ok I apologize, apparently both of the ways I tried running it using VS Code or Cmder, both had bash console emulators, which support the tail command.

Edit: Using powershell commands works so I could PR it as well. In the meantime you can replace Line 69 with:

f = subprocess.Popen(f"powershell.exe get-content {expanded_user_log_path} -tail 1 -wait", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE)

[skrustev]

I was able to successfully run it without any issues on Windows 10 with the latest Python 3.9.4 Windows distribution.

The steps for running it are pretty much the same, only difference is that on Windows , the Python virtual environment is activated by running the ./.venv/Scripts/activate script directly.

• If you are using VS Code, you can select the created virtual environment by pointing to the ./.venv/Scripts/python.exe and use the Python terminal to run the ChiaDog.

What else I probably had to set differently is the file_path in the config, since on Windows its usually distributed under C:/Users/<username>/.chia/mainnet/log/debug.log for example.