Re: [Gretl-devel] Building gretl on WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux)
On Sun, 11 Nov 2018, Sven Schreiber wrote:
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.
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.
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.
Allin