Hi Joe, ok. I'll try WSL then. Will let know about my findings. Maybe others can profit as well (Philip?)
Thx /Arie Op ma 16 apr. 2018 18:10 schreef Joe Bogner <[email protected]>: > Hi Arie, > > I would like to send a more detailed reply later. I'm the author of the > flinux writeup. It's been a few years and things don't work as nicely as > they did back then. > > I retested some the writeup today. I was unable to get the flinux static > option working. I was able to get flinux dynamic working, but the archlinux > distro is out of date and I wouldn't recommend going down that path any > more. > > After the flinux experiment, I did do some work with a precusor to WSL, > midipix[1], which seems to still work. > > The last time I tried WSL it had issues with database locking. I need to > do some more experiments on WSL now that I have a Win-10 machine > > I have another option that I've used over the years, midipix, but it's out > of date as well. > > Your best bet is probably to go with WSL or cygwin/msys for now. > > When I first put all this together, there was little interest. It sounds > like there is more interest now so I'll see if I can dust it off and bring > it up to date > > Thanks, > Joe > > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Philipp Geyer <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Based on the instructions on the site, it looks like the next steps are >> to build pil on Linux, and then run the linux binary on Windows through >> flinux. >> >> I have not tried pil in WSL yet (my only Windows text machine is Win7), >> and I don't think that's a solution for my specific problem (to have a >> simple environment for an end user with no technical experience) but I >> have had some luck building pil with mingw/msys which provide a POSIX >> compatibility layer on top of Windows. I have not (yet) managed to get >> anything 100% working, but I'm optimistic. Currently if I build with >> msys2, I can get an executable which I believe passed the tests, but >> requires msys2.dll to be in the library path (which includes the >> executable directory of course) but I believe that if you build with >> mingw without msys, it builds against msvcrt directly, and links in the >> compatibility layer. This is what I haven't managed yet. >> >> As I said though, I'm optimistic, and it's something I need for my >> project. >> >> Philipp Geyer/Nistur >> >> -- >> UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:[email protected]?subject=Unsubscribe >> > >
