[GNC-dev] WSL 2 and GnuCash

[John Ralls]

Oh. I thought that WSL2 didn't require the XServer. I did look at the WSL2 installation page (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10) yesterday and it's indeed a geeks-only undertaking at this point.

It looks like we'll be stuck with MinGW for the foreseeable future.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Jul 26, 2020, at 7:42 AM, Chris Graves <mohavebaked at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From memory...
> and unfortunately at this point,not user friendly.
> 
> With Windows 10 version 2004 installed:
> Open the Turn Windows Features on or off dialog
> Select Windows Subsystem for Linux and Virtual Machine Platform options
> Installed to WSL, a very striped down Fedora from https://github.com/yosukes-dev/FedoraWSL
> Used wsl to convert FedoraWSL from version 1 to version 2 "wsl --set-version fedora32 2"
> Logged into Fedora via the command "wsl"
> used dnf to install xfce, gnucash and several other utilities
> created a user account with the name matching my windows username
> in .bashrc set the DISPLAY variable "export DISPLAY=localhost:0"
> Back in windows, installed a windows X server: https://sourceforge.net/projects/vcxsrv/
> Launched the X server with the display set to 0
> Created a shortcut with target: C:\Windows\System32\wsl.exe -u chris bash  -l -c gnucash
>  (when logging in to fedora via the wsl command, the .bashrc was not being executed so DISPLAY wasn't being set
>   thus - bash -l -c gnucash)
> Double clicked the shortcut and voila -- GnuCash
> Used the file->open dialog to open my data file -- BTW, the default directory here was my Windows user directory
> 
> The process is a bit tedious and not something a typical user should be asked to do, but it did work and was a fun exercise. Note that all the GC config and AQB stuff lives in the users Linux home dir.
> 
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> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:05 PM John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
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> > On Jul 25, 2020, at 10:32 AM, Chris Graves <mohavebaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > GnuCash on Fedora in WSL2 on Windows 10.  Launched from desktop shortcut.
> > 
> > https://imgur.com/a/ORivN9q
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> Cool. How did you install it?
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
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