A new option to the ./configure script named --enable-windows-support is introduced to install additional files relative to the enablement of Modules on the Windows platform. When set, this option installs module.cmd, ml.cmd and envml.cmd scripts in bindir and initialization script cmd.cmd in initdir. With these four files the Modules installation may be used from either a Unix or a Windows platform.

module.cmd, ml.cmd and envml.cmd scripts respectively provide the module, ml and envml commands for Windows cmd terminal shell, relying on modulecmd.tcl script which was already able to produce shell code for this Windows shell. Initialization script cmd.cmd adds the directory of module.cmd, ml.cmd and envml.cmd to PATH.

These Windows-specific files are relocatable: module.cmd, ml.cmd and envml.cmd scripts expect to find initialization script cmd.cmd in the init directory next to them (to setup Modules-specific variables in current environment) and cmd.cmd expects modulecmd.tcl to be found in libexec directory and the 2 commands in bin directory next to it.

Starting from this 4.5 release a distribution zipball will be published to install Modules on Windows. This zip archive ships an install and an uninstall scripts (INSTALL.bat and UNINSTALL.bat). The zipball can be built locally from Modules sources by running make dist-win.

The Installing Modules on Windows document is provided to guide you to install Modules from the distribution zipball.

All of this is already available in git repository and will be shipped into the upcoming v4.5 release.