Re: [Shotwell] Installing on Windows with WSL

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

On Mon, 2019-09-30 at 14:43 +0000, jps1789--- via shotwell-list wrote:
> Hello. I'm trying to install Shotwell on Windows, and found this page
> that claims to have a Windows version [
> https://yepdownload.com/shotwell], but don't trust its "0.5.1 alpha"
> exe, considering the GNOME site says nothing about a Windows build &
> the mailing list indicates that Windows hasn't been supported in a
> decade: [
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/shotwell-list/2010-December/001315.html
> ]

I think 0.5.1alpha was the last version to actually officially support
Windows.

> Also the fact that the installer tried to set Chromium & Yahho as my
> default browser & search engine was a red flag.



> So I'm attempting using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) along with
> this guide [
> https://dev.to/david_j_eddy/run-linux-gui-applications-on-windows-10-3130
> ] and was able to open vim like the guide said. But when looking how
> to install Shotwell at [
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/shotwell/blob/master/INSTALL], after
> running `ninja -C build`, I get an error: `ninja: fatal: chdir to
> 'build' - No such file or directory`. Adding sudo doesn't affect it.

You forgot "meson build"