On 11 August 2016 at 10:47, Páll Haraldsson <pall.haralds...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 3, 2016 at 3:07:55 PM UTC, Bill Hart wrote: >> >> I got the Windows 10 anniversary update and turned on the new Windows >> subsystem for Linux. >> > > [You mean the subsystem and bash is no non-beta/Insder program, good to > know, and useful for software that isn't already portable to Windows.] > > >> The Julia binaries from the website load, but unfortunately don't fully >> work. >> > > Why would it "be great to get this working"? Or at least [of interest] for > you? I also did wander if it would work but since there is a Windows Julia > binary, that we would want to maintain for a long time and not drop support > of Julia that way, I do not see this as a priority, or on the horizon. Only > that Julia version is supported back to Windows XP. Theoretically using a > Linux ELF binary in Windows is interesting, but it could be a long time to > a Windows 10-exclusive world(?). > > The reason this could be interesting for some people is that not all C libraries have been ported to Windows, and doing so is non-trivial. For example, we'd like to rely on Singular and Gap and don't currently have the resources to do a port. However, they work just fine on Ubuntu. Of course supporting the WSL does not mean abandoning support for native Windows. Bill.
