Something is wrong with the new update using the Windows binaries

[hellishvictor]

Something is wrong with the new update using the Windows binaries

[TomWright]

Very sorry about that, I'll jump right on it.

[TomWright]

I've tested dasel_windows_386.exe on my 64bit windows 10 machine and it works as expected.

The only difference I can see is that it will have built using go v1.22 instead of v1.21. From a quick google search it looks as though this is not in-fact a bug with dasel, rather the go team have dropped support for Windows 7 in newer versions of go:

• golang/go#52188
• golang/go#57003
• golang/go#57004

While I would love to facilitate as many users as possible, locking dasel to an old version of the language feels like a bit of a stretch to me.

While it's unfortunate you cannot execute the binary itself, I believe the following are your options:

1. Stay on v2.5.0. Assuming you don't need any of the new features/bug fixes then any current scripts/workflows you have should continue to work.
2. Use dasel via docker. You can always use the latest version of dasel without worrying about compatibility with older versions of Windows.
3. Build dasel yourself with an older version of go. I expect you'd need at least v1.21, but if that doesn't work it sounds like v1.20 will.

Here's a simple example of running the latest version of dasel with Docker:

$ echo '{"foo":"bar"}' | docker run -i --rm ghcr.io/tomwright/dasel:2.6.0 -r json 'foo'
"bar"

If you have any questions or doubts please let me know.

[TomWright]

As announced in the Go 1.20 release notes, Go 1.21 requires at least Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016; support for previous versions has been discontinued.
https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.21

[hellishvictor]

And the thing is that two days ago I downloaded go v1.22 and goreleaser for compile (by very first time) a go program, "micro". Now already got the 1.20.14.
I'll try to compile it, but I must admit that v2.5.0 works like a charm. Definitely, you've created an amazing tool, man.
I haven't got into docks yet, but it's mentioned everywhere, so when I got time I'll give it a try.
Thank you very much!

[TomWright]

@hellishvictor if you need help compiling newer dasel versions on older versions of go let me know and I can put something together 👍