Potential Windows issue

[thomas-noimos]

I'm facing some weird issues on Windows since version 4.0.7. When I was using version 4.0.0, some binaries were not automatically installed. I then installed them and things worked properly (although it was annoying having OS specific libs commited in the package.json). Now, since 4.0.7, I no longer see the crash error that the library is missing, however the styles are not properly generated.

I have my repo cloned exactly the same way via WSL and there everything seems to work smoothly.

Example:
WSL:

Windows:

I'm missing a lot of generated CSS classes there.

What version of Tailwind CSS are you using?

v4.0.15

What build tool (or framework if it abstracts the build tool) are you using?

Vite v6

What version of Node.js are you using?

Tried in 18, 20 and 22

What browser are you using?
Brave
For example: Chrome, Safari, or N/A

What operating system are you using?

For example: macOS, Windows

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