[GRASS-dev] GRASS + WSL

[Edouard Choinière]

I use WSL2 regularly, I’m on Win11 now, and used graphic apps for years while on Win10.
I tried out the new wslg feature on Win11 last week.
First thing, I was using the Ubuntu 20.04 (the default that the Ubuntu distribution in the Microsoft Store bundles for now). Since I had a problem with a software I tried to upgrade in place a crash ubuntu distro to a newest release but then I had even more problems with graphical software. All that to say that at least make sure that Ubuntu 20.04 works.

Next, the graphical features are not installed by default (packages for UI). If you follow the steps in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps, the installation of the software will require the packages to be installed. For example, Gedit will need to install the gnome and desktop environnement packages etc. There isn’t only gnome though. Test out that you you can run some of the apps before compiling. I wonder if the configure step ignores the X11 (--with-x11) if it not present at the configure step. That being said, on win11, it is no longer limited to X11, there is the Weston Wayland compositor in the core of the architecture. https://github.com/microsoft/wslg#wslg-architecture-overview

So, once tested that wsl and gui apps works, and then configured and built GRASS, I’d like to see what error messages you have. I didn’t compile GRASS on WSL yet, I only tried on msys2’s MinGW.

Don’t forget to make sure you have the NVidia drivers updated, like in the 510+ (I think the first beta versions were before 495, but it doesn’t mean the Linux kernel is really supported before).



Edouard Choinière

Le 23 févr. 2022 à 09:47, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> a écrit :




On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 at 04:56, Brad ReDacted <brad.redacted at outlook.com<mailto:brad.redacted at outlook.com>> wrote:

I'm going to cc: the list because I'm not sure how to address this.

Thanks. That's actually the right thing to do. :-) See also:

https://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Mailing_list_etiquette#Responding_to_other_posts

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