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You can't really use WSL to develop or use native Windows software. WSL is good for when your target is Linux and otherwise not applicable. It's also not Windo
by jchw 4y ago
You can't really use WSL to develop or use native Windows software. WSL is good for when your target is Linux and otherwise not applicable.
It's also not Window's problem. It's yours, when you try to develop software and have Windows users.
- Cloudef 4y agoMingw exists
- jchw 4y agoThis only makes the problem much worse. (Note that I literally reference MSys and Cygwin in my original reply. However, these options are neither ideal for making good Windows binaries nor are they great facsimiles for UNIX. Almost any Makefile needs to be carefully constructed so that MinGW works, especially if you want to support more than just very specific MinGW setups. And there's other downsides I didn't get into, such as licensing problems with winpthreads, and silent dubious behavior like pseudo relocs. I don't recommend using MinGW.)