Re: [Gretl-devel] Building gretl on WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux)
Am 11.11.18 um 13:21 schrieb Artur T.:
Am 09.11.18 um 12:15 schrieb Sven Schreiber:
> I've read about the support that Windows 10 (64bit only I think)
> offers to run Linux non-graphical programs. Today I tested
> successfully that it is possible to build the Linux version of gretl
> from source on Windows 10 like this:
> This worked for me without errors.
Thanks for this summary, Sven. Actually the cooperation between MS and
Canonical exists since a couple of years and this kind of Linux
support was already supported for Win 7 -- if I remember correctly.
Somehow only very few people, even among the IT nerds I know, are
really aware of this nice feature.
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.
cheers,
sven