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 distro is out of date and I wouldn't recommend going down that path any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
>>
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