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diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst b/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst index 3c11632fe4..253b0e41e5 100644 --- a/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst +++ b/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst @@ -1700,29 +1700,15 @@ If in the previous step, you did not have CMake or Ninja installed, running the Windows Compatible Packages """"""""""""""""""""""""""" -Many Spack packages are not currently compatible with Windows, due to Unix -dependencies or incompatible build tools like autoconf. Here are several -packages known to work on Windows: - -* abseil-cpp -* bzip2 -* clingo -* cpuinfo -* cmake -* hdf5 -* glm -* nasm -* netlib-lapack (requires Intel Fortran) -* ninja -* openssl -* perl -* python -* ruby -* wrf -* zlib +Not all spack packages currently have Windows support. Some are inherently incompatible with the +platform, and others simply have yet to be ported. To view the current set of packages with Windows +support, the list command should be used via `spack list -t windows`. If there's a package you'd like +to install on Windows but is not in that list, feel free to reach out to request the port or contribute +the port yourself. .. note:: - This is by no means a comprehensive list + This is by no means a comprehensive list, some packages may have ports that were not tagged + while others may just work out of the box on Windows and have not been tagged as such. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ For developers @@ -1734,3 +1720,4 @@ Instructions for creating the installer are at https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/lib/spack/spack/cmd/installer/README.md Alternatively a pre-built copy of the Windows installer is available as an artifact of Spack's Windows CI +available at each run of the CI on develop or any PR. |