Re: [Gimp-developer] Windows 10 and Bash on Ubuntu

[Petteri Soininen <pesoini gmail com>]

Hi

Not gaining personally anything, but maybe making development builds 
more accessible to those who come from MS Windows backgrounds.

Now they have to setup a Msys2 environment and do builds with that, 
which isn't as easy as it sounds with instructions that are partly 
outdated, but if Win10 has an Ubuntu shell, that probably is quite same 
for everyone who uses it, so why not try to build GIMP for Windows with 
that? GIMP isn't supposed to be an elitist Linux application, but a 
serious cross platform tool for everyone. Or so I have thought this far.

- Petteri Soininen

On 4.2.2017 5:07, Partha Bagchi wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 9:53 PM, Petteri Soininen <pesoini gmail com 
> <mailto:pesoini gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     I'd probably try cross build since after 'sudo apt-get install
>     gimp' and trying to run it, it fails on 'cannot open display' so I
>     think that indicates the shell cannot run it under windows and
>     gimp needs to be built as a cross build. But as said, I'm just a
>     beginner.  :)
>
>     - Petteri Soininen
>
> Well, GIMP is a graphical application and X11 are not officially 
> supported on WSL. So, first you'll need to install X11 and then set 
> the display appropriately. If you are familiar with Linux this should 
> not be a problem. I think the command is something like export display.
>
> If you simply plan to cross build, I am not sure what you are gaining 
> with WSL.
>
> Hope that helps.