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I still prefer Cygwin. I can't make a WSL program that is also a win32 program and that has a native win32 GUI. With Cygwin, I can. If I want a sandboxed VM, I

I still prefer Cygwin. I can't make a WSL program that is also a win32 program and that has a native win32 GUI. With Cygwin, I can. If I want a sandboxed VM, I can get a sandboxed VM using a number of different technologies, of which WSL is merely one.

1996 7y ago
Can you post a link to a hello-world like example of how you make a win32 program that has a native win32 gui with Cygwin?
dleslie 7y ago
You can cross-compile Windows apps under WSL, as well.