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Building (Windows WSL)
Requirements
- Windows 10 or Windows 11 with installed WSL2 and Ubuntu WSL
Workarounds to make it work
WSL adds Windows paths to the Linux path variable
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[email protected]:~$ echo $PATH
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/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/lib/wsl/lib:/mnt/c/Windows/system32:/mnt/c/Windows:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/Wbem:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/WindowsPowerShell/v1.0/:/mnt/c/Windows/System32/OpenSSH/:/snap/bin
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This breaks the build and leads to unpredictable problems.
To disable that behavior you need to create a file at your Ubuntu WSL
/etc/wsl.conf and add these options to disable. Afterwards you need to reboot WSL or your system.1
[interop]
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enabled=false # enable launch of Windows binaries
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appendWindowsPath=false # append Windows path to $PATH variable
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Building at the native NTFS formatted storage (C:/; D:/ ...) is dead slow
To interoperate with your Windows Desktop you want the git tree accessible from Windows.
So you clone the Git Tree to a location at windows and try to use it at WSL.
For this example the Git Tree is cloned at
D:\WSL\LE - /mnt/d/WSL/LE.
If you start building the build folder would be located at D:\WSL\LE\build.YOURPROJECT .To change the path for the build files you need to add some options to the LibreELEC options file
/home/YOURUSER/.libreelec/options .1
BUILD_DIR=/home/YOURUSER/LEbuild
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After adding this line to the options file every build is now located at this folder.
The /home folder is located at the WSL ext4.vhdx and not at the native NTFS storage.
Optional: Move your WSL file to another location
There are several ways in moving your WSL file, the easiest solution is the dedicated tool LxRunOffline . The version 3.5.0 is not supporting the current Windows Version so you need to use a more recent version or a development build.
lxrunoffline move -n Ubuntu-20.04 -d d:\wslLast modified 3mo ago
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