On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 3:15 AM Mike Jumper <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 11:38 PM Trakroo, Shwaita < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > How can we build Guacamole server on Windows 10 machine? > > > Can you clarify what you're looking to accomplish by doing so? > > Much of guacamole-server relies on POSIX behavior that is unavailable on > Windows, at least not without a specific porting effort. The core libguac > library has been written to be buildable on Windows, and should compile > nicely using the MinGW toolchain, but I don't believe the rest of > guacamole-server can be built in this way. > > If you absolutely cannot deploy a Linux server and need to run 100% of > Guacamole on Windows, I think your next best option would still be to > leverage a Linux server via a virtual machine. > > The other option that occurs to me is to leverage the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which, as I understand it, is an Ubuntu-based environment where you can pretty freely install packages and tools that you'd need to build and run Linux-based applications, such as Guacamole Server (guacd). I've no direct experience using it, preferring just to install Linux in place of Windows, but if you must keep Windows 10 on the system, and you don't have access to another system that you can use to run Guacamole, it may do the trick. If a separate system is an option you could consider something like a Raspberry Pi or Intel NuC for running Linux and installing Guacamole. I've also never tried to install Guacamole on a Raspberry Pi, so I don't know how successful that'll be, but someone in the community may know. Intel NuC would be much closer to a standard Intel-based CPU, so might be a little easier. -Nick
