On Unix-like systems (e.g. Darwin, Linux) building dataset and libdataset is generally as easy as running the GNU Make command. On Windows you need to take a more Window-ish approach and run make.bat.
Install Go 1.12.x via the Windows’ installer available from https://golang.org/downloads
install git and gcc via Miniconda
run go get -u github.com\caltechlibrary\dataset
run go get -u github.com\caltechlibrary\cli
run the make.bat
Here’s an example of what I’ve done after openning the “Anaconda Prompt”
cd %USERPROFILE%
mkdir go
mkdir go\bin
mkdir go\src
conda install git
conda install m2w64-gcc
go get -u github.com\caltechlibrary\dataset
go get -u github.com\caltechlibrary\cli
cd go\src\caltechlibrary\dataset
.\make.bat
move dataset.exe "%USERPROFILE\go\bin\dataset.exe"
To build the DLL
cd libdataset
.\make.bat
Both the dataset command line exe and DLL will need to be copied to where they available to your windows applications.