Satish Balay <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2017, Jed Brown wrote: > >> WSL can now run Windows executables from bash (and vice-versa). Is this >> now a viable way to create a Windows native build? >> >> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2017/04/11/windows-10-creators-update-whats-new-in-bashwsl-windows-console/ > > We'll still need a win32fe equivalent functionality somewhere..
Understood. I'm not trying to deal with that just now, but I would very much like to see a native Windows build without using cygwin. > Also Note: > https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2016/10/19/interop-between-windows-and-bash/ > "Windows apps should NOT be used to open files in the Linux filesystem" That blog is six months old and can't still apply considering that the example has echo hello > hello.txt notepad.exe hello.txt > BTW: builds with ubuntu gcc goes through fine - but 'make alltest' randomly > hangs.. Where are you running? The new blog claims that sshd works now, so it must be possible to set up a Windows machine/VM so that we can ssh into a bash shell. That would vastly simplify the task of reproducing Windows oddities.
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