Re: [Gretl-devel] Building gretl on WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux)
Am 11.11.18 um 17:32 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:
>
> I'm not 100% sure, but I'm not aware that it is possible to install
> an entire distro like Debian within Win 7, and then use tools like
> "apt-get" to download more standard packages from that distro. I
> believe the breadth of the support used to be much less than it is in
> WSL in Win10.
All quite interesting. But I'm not sure why one would want to
build/run a Linux version of gretl on Windows when you can build and
run a native Windows version.
Indeed, the idea was not to build a Linux version in the end. I believe
that you, Allin, used to cross-compile the Windows builds on Linux. And
I conjectured that this cross-compilation setup might be easier to
organize and configure than the Msys-setup. But this assumption could be
totally wrong.
I find that MSYS2 works very well for building on Windows. The only
downside I can see is that the build is very slow compared to that on
Linux, but when incrementally updating a build from git sources that's
not a very big deal.
I found the setup of MSYS2/MinGW on Windows a bit of a hassle. You wrote
an excellent guide on that, but again I find it easier to set up the
Linux build environment. But of course it has a lot to do with habit
formation.
thanks,
sven