Manifa

Windows

There is currently no native Windows build of mani. The installer detects your OS and, on anything other than macOS or Linux, tells you to use WSL — running curl -fsSL https://manifa.dev/install | sh directly in PowerShell or cmd.exe will fail with an "unsupported OS" error rather than silently doing the wrong thing.

Use WSL2

  1. Install WSL2 with a Linux distribution (Ubuntu is the most tested default).
  2. Open that distro's shell and follow the Linux instructions — the install script, mani itself, and mani mount all run exactly as they would on bare-metal Linux, because WSL2 runs a real Linux kernel rather than emulating one. That includes FUSE: mani mount works inside WSL2 the same way it does on Linux (same build-from-source caveat — see the Linux page).
  3. Vault files synced inside WSL2 are reachable from Windows apps (including Explorer) at \\wsl.localhost\<distro>\... or \\wsl$\<distro>\... — the same path any WSL-side file is reachable at. This is plain WSL/Windows interop, not a Manifa-specific integration; there's no Explorer extension analogous to the macOS Finder integration.

What doesn't work

  • No native (non-WSL) mani binary — there's nothing to download for plain Windows.
  • No Explorer on-demand-files integration, shipped or in development.
  • Windows is part of the CI conformance matrix (the core sync/crypto logic is tested against it), but that doesn't produce a release binary — it verifies the protocol, not a Windows build of the CLI.