Cygwin alongside WSL

[Thomas Wolff]

Am 26.10.2017 um 18:13 schrieb Brian Inglis:
> On 2017-10-25 15:18, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Am 25.10.2017 um 20:30 schrieb Brian Inglis:
>>> On 2017-10-25 11:27, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>>> On 2017-10-25 00:29, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>> Am 25.10.2017 um 00:19 schrieb Angelo Graziosi:
>>>>>> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>>>> Mintty 2.8.0 simplifies WSL integration a lot.
>>>>>>> In Cygwin, you can simply start e.g. mintty --WSL=Ubuntu (add -~ to start in
>>>>>>> the WSL home).
>>>>>> Does it mean that 2.8.0 does not need wslbridge [*] any more?
>>>>> No, sorry, I forgot to mention that wslbridge would have to be installed
>>>>> in /bin to make this work.
>>>> As it is not a Cygwin package, I have installed wslbridge in /usr/local/bin/,
>>>> which is in the system Path in Windows format, so also in the Cygwin path in
>>>> Unix format - will this work?
>>> Would a symlink, winsymlink, or .lnk as /bin/wslbridge to /usr/local/bin/?
>> Why don't you just try it? Both wslbridge and wslbridge-backend must reside in
>> /bin, hard links will work of course.
> It looks like without the Fall Update --WSL= does not work with either
> no/default distribution found, and the same result with a variety of obvious names:
>
> ...
>
> It would be nice if --WSL did the right thing for legacy installs also.
Yes, I am aware of this gap, see https://github.com/mintty/wsltty/issues/64
> ...
> Also for longopts --WSL should allow an optional_argument, ...
I was not aware of this feature of getopt, thanks.
Thomas

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