Fastlane windows cannot installing

Question

How to install fastlane in windows? i installed rubygems , but i dont know how to install fastlane on windows. please tell me how to install fastlane in windows?

Werth

Answer 1

fastlane currently only runs on macOS and doesn't support Windows.

Update 2020: See answer below on how to get fastlane running on Windows.

Prunella

is Linux supported by fastlane? – Rensselaerite

is this still true to this day? – Infundibulum

You can achieve it by installing Ruby on your Windows machine. See my answer. – View

Wrong! It works on windows! See solution underneeth! – Distinguish

Answer 2

1. Install ruby on your windows machine.
2. Go to your command line and type gem install fastlane -NV.
3. You have fastlane on your windows machine ready.

View

Will it work for publishing android studio application? Have you tried it? – Geomancy

@AryeeteySolomonAryeetey, I am researching about fastlane for windows and saw this post of yours. I am trying to make fastlane work on my windows device but I don't actually know where and how to start. All I see are tutorials for macOS. I don't completely understand them and I was wondering if it would be worth my time to try harder if I want to learn Fastlane for my windows device? In short are the "steps" the same when working with Windows than in Mac? Thanks!! – Infundibulum

I've successfully used it on windows as well. I had to run fastlane commands from MINGW64 terminal, because it relies on unix commands such as cat. – Likeminded

@LutaayaHuzaifahIdris If it works for you, please upvote :) – View

it gives the following error: ERROR: Loading command: install (ArgumentError) unknown encoding name - CP720 ERROR: While executing gem ... (NoMethodError) undefined method `invoke_with_build_args' for nil:NilClass – Bronwynbronx

To the author: This is the real solution! It works for me directly! Thanks you so much :) – Distinguish

I am getting the following error on windows ERROR: Error installing fastlane: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension. current directory: C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/gems/unf_ext-0.0.8/ext/unf_ext C:/Ruby31-x64/bin/ruby.exe -I C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/3.1.0 -r ./siteconf20220218-15756-1a9ghh.rb extconf.rb Building has failed. See above output for more information on the failure. To see why this extension failed to compile, please check the mkmf.log which can be found here: C:/Ruby31-x64/lib/ruby/gems/3.1.0/extensions/x64-mingw-ucrt/3.1.0/unf_ext-0.0.8/mkmf.log – Hoist

Answer 3

As @AryeeteySolomonAryeetey states it is possible to run fastlane on Windows.

But we experienced a few more issue, before we were up and running:

• Needs a terminal in interactive mode
• ridk needs to be install - at least on some machines
• Some fastlane commands does not work on Windows - you will have do some workarounds.

I have written a blogpost about the Automated Android deployment with Fastlane on Windows including a powershell setup script to do all the needed setup to be running Fastlane on Windows!

Edit 2024: We are still running it on Windows but we have found it to be simpler to run it with Ubuntu subsystem in Windows terminal - still on windows filesystem though.

Trample

It is possible to use firabase app distribuition on windows? – Fortis

@WellingtonYogui I have not tried that on the windows machine because we run that lane on our CI - but I think would work just as other fastlane actions works on windows. – Trample

@MortenHolmgaard that blogpost is not available – Outspan

@JebaPrince I am investigating that - the website has been rewritten but the blog was supposed to still be there. – Trample

Answer 4

You can install via nodejs

npm install fastlane

Law

but does it work? According to official site it still only runs on macOS – Anthropophagite

I guess the initial question doesn't mention if they want to mean the fastlane tool for mobile apps, or the npm fastlane, which is not related to the mobile app tool – Prunella