Binary release?

[JohnClaw]

Could you upload cpu avx2 and vulkan Windows binaries, please?

[localai-bot]

Consolidating the Windows demand from the r/LocalLLaMA launch thread here rather than opening a duplicate, since it is the same ask from three directions:

• Prebuilt Windows binaries, from someone who cannot build locally because every Visual Studio install attempt fails with an unrecoverable error
• Whether the project compiles on Windows at all, which is currently unanswered: there is no Windows/MSVC story documented anywhere and no Windows machine here to find out
• Why vLLM itself has no Windows support, where the practical answers offered were WSL, and https://github.com/SystemPanic/vllm-windows for the upstream case

So there are two separable things in this issue:

1. Does it build on Windows? Nobody has tried. It is CMake + C++20 with no Python and no PyTorch, and the core has no ML dependencies, so an MSVC or clang-cl attempt is plausible rather than hopeless. A build report from anyone with a Windows box would settle it, and a failure log is just as useful as a success.
2. Shipping binaries. Tracked separately by the release-binary matrix work, which is currently a spec spike with no archives produced yet.

If you are on Windows and willing to try a build, please post what you hit. That is the blocker on (1).