Error on Windows 11 while installing via cargo

[IngoTB303]

error[E0728]: await is only allowed inside async functions and blocks
--> C:\Users<user>.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f\tokio-wifiscanner-0.2.1\src\sys\windows.rs:11:10
|
6 | pub fn scan() -> Result<Vec> {
| ---------------------------------- this is not async
...
11 | .await
| ^^^^^ only allowed inside async functions and blocks

error[E0277]: std::result::Result<Vec<Wifi>, Error> is not a future
--> C:\Users<user>.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f\tokio-wifiscanner-0.2.1\src\lib.rs:110:24
|
110 | crate::sys::scan().await
| ------------------ ^^^^^ std::result::Result<Vec<Wifi>, Error> is not a future
| |
| this call returns std::result::Result<Vec<Wifi>, Error>
|
= help: the trait Future is not implemented for std::result::Result<Vec<Wifi>, Error>, which is required by std::result::Result<Vec<Wifi>, Error>: IntoFuture
= note: std::result::Result<Vec, Error> must be a future or must implement IntoFuture to be awaited
= note: required for std::result::Result<Vec<Wifi>, Error> to implement IntoFuture
help: remove the .await
|
110 - crate::sys::scan().await
110 + crate::sys::scan()
|
help: alternatively, consider making fn scan asynchronous
--> C:\Users<user>.cargo\registry\src\index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f\tokio-wifiscanner-0.2.1\src\sys\windows.rs:6:4
|
6 | pub async fn scan() -> Result<Vec> {
| +++++

Compiling clap v4.5.1
Some errors have detailed explanations: E0277, E0728.
For more information about an error, try rustc --explain E0277.
Compiling pest_derive v2.7.8
error: could not compile tokio-wifiscanner (lib) due to 2 previous errors
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
error: failed to compile netscanner v0.5.3, intermediate artifacts can be found at C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp\cargo-installiaOl9x.
To reuse those artifacts with a future compilation, set the environment variable CARGO_TARGET_DIR to that path.

[Chleba]

Hi @IngoTB303,
Yes I know about this. It is inside one of the crate that netscanner is using for scanning wifi networks and soon I will removed this crate and I will try to implement some better or at lease my own wifi scanning that will support win & mac (mac because airport is no longer supported in macOS).
So If I may ask to either wait after I finish one more feature and do a proper wifi scanning OR you may try install ubuntu or some other distro to install netscanner.

[Chleba]

Hi,
@EphemeralSapient create a PR to fix this issue. I will take a look at it ASAP and it should fix this issue for a Windows OS.

[Chleba]

PR with windows support is here: #39