# Windows \`hab\` Builds - Testing Help Wanted!

**URL:** https://discourse.chef.io/t/windows-hab-builds-testing-help-wanted/18288
**Category:** Habitat Help
**Created:** [September 27, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/windows-hab-builds-testing-help-wanted/18288 "2016-09-27T15:04:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Steven\_Murawski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/steven_murawski/32/1450_2.png) [@Steven\_Murawski](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Steven_Murawski)
#### Post date: [September 27, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/windows-hab-builds-testing-help-wanted/18288/1 "2016-09-27T15:04:42Z")

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We’ve got Windows builds of the `hab` command going and AppVeyor set up for CI on master and incoming pull requests - but there’s still lots of work to do!

## Want to try it out?

_NOTE_: This is pre-release quality, only use in a test environment.

If you’ve got [chocolatey](https://chocolatey.org), it is as easy as:

```auto
choco install hab --confirm -s https://www.myget.org/F/habitat/api/v2 --allowemptychecksums --pre --force

```

I’m working on adding nightly or CI based builds - so to update to the latest build, you could use:

```auto
choco upgrade hab --confirm -s https://www.myget.org/F/habitat/api/v2 --allowemptychecksums -v --pre --force

```

## Things I know that don’t work yet:

- `hab studio`
- `hab pkg build`
- `hab pkg exec`

## Things that don’t work quite right

- `hab setup` properly sets up your configuration, but on a per drive basis (so if you run it from a working directory somewhere on C:, then change to somewhere on D:, `hab` would not see your configuration.
- 'hab pkg install` sort of installs packages onto your file system (again scoped by the current drive). It pulls down linux packages and properly unpacks them, unless there is a symlink.
- 'hab pkg path` provides a non-drive qualified path
- `hab pkg provides` searches packages installed in on the current drive.

## Things that shouldn’t work

- `hab pkg binlink`
- `hab pkg export`
- `hab sup`

## Help us move faster!

We could really use a hand for those folks interested in testing some of the sub-commands, specifically:

- `hab config apply`
- `hab file upload`
- `hab origin key download`
- `hab origin key export`
- `hab origin key generate`
- `hab origin key import`
- `hab origin key upload`
- `hab pkg hash`
- `hab pkg search`
- `hab pkg sign`
- `hab pkg upload`
- `hab pkg verify`
- `hab ring key export`
- `hab ring key generate`
- `hab ring key import`
- `hab service key generate`
- `hab user key generate`

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### Author: ![sntxrr](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/sntxrr/32/2957_2.png) [@sntxrr](https://discourse.chef.io/u/sntxrr)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2016, 11:46pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/windows-hab-builds-testing-help-wanted/18288/2 "2016-09-28T23:46:40Z")

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I did the following:

```
`hab setup` (worked)
`hab user key generate` (worked)
`hab origin key generate` (worked)
`hab pkg search` (worked)

```

Nice work!

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### Author: ![Steven\_Murawski](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/steven_murawski/32/1450_2.png) [@Steven\_Murawski](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Steven_Murawski)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2016, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/windows-hab-builds-testing-help-wanted/18288/3 "2016-09-29T14:35:14Z")

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Thanks @sntxrr! Appreciate the help!