On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 3:59 AM Ayush Jain <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > We are facing trouble in installing Guacamole on Windows OS. The following > points are queries/doubts: > > > 1. Are Guacamole Installation commands available for Windows 10 OS? > > We do not have documentation that details installing Guacamole on Windows. However, this also depends on which component(s) of Guacamole you're talking about. The Guacamole Client portions will probably run fine on Windows - you just need to install a Windows version of Tomcat and probably specify a valid GUACAMOLE_HOME directory per the instructions in the manual. Guacamole Server (libguac and guacd) may be a bit more difficult to get running on Windows - there was some work done in the past to make in "winsock" compatible, but I believe the biggest challenge is that you'll still need all of the dependencies listed in the install document - things like libjpeg, libpng, uuid, cairo, pango, freerdp, etc. To provide all of these dependencies you'll likely need to use something like the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or Cygwin. There are no files provided for building guacd with something like Visual Studio - you'll need the requirements specified in the document. > > 1. Is this only available for Ubuntu/Linux specific user? > > It has been designed to run on Linux, and that is where the focus of the development is. That's not to say you can't run it on another platform, it'll just take a lot of work. You should consider running it on Linux - you'll spend far less time spinning up a Linux VM or Cloud instance and installing it there than you will trying to figure out how to get everything installed on Windows. That said, it can be used by users on any platform - it is specifically designed such that, once you have a server up and running, any user with a modern, HTML5-compliant browser can access the system, regardless of their client platform. The users of the system do not need to be running Linux. > > 1. Is third party softwares/tools needed to install Guacamole on > Windows? > > Yes, they are all listed in the documentation: http://guacamole.apache.org/doc/gug/ -Nick >
