DMD on WIndows 10

Manu turkeyman at gmail.com
Sat Jan 5 20:41:46 UTC 2019


On Sat, Jan 5, 2019 at 10:15 AM Neia Neutuladh via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 05 Jan 2019 14:05:48 +0000, Patrick Schluter wrote:
> > On Saturday, 1 August 2015 at 04:25:07 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> >> You know, it would be _really_ cool if there were an OS out there that
> >> was fully compliant with both the POSIX standard and ecosystem and the
> >> Win32 API such that you could run KDE, gnome,
> >> bash, zsh, etc. on it just like on Linux/FreeBSD/etc. _and_ run Windows
> >> programs on it - all as native applications. A total pipe dream really,
> >> but _man_ would that be cool...
> >>
> > Sarcasm or just that you didn't know about WSL (Windows subsystem for
> > Linux) on windows 10.
> > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10
> >
> > It's supposed to be able to run Linux app natively on windows 10.
> > bash as shell and much more.
>
> There's no way to run KDE or GNOME with it instead of the native shell,
> though. If you succeeded, you wouldn't be able to run native Windows
> applications inside. I ran into this problem running GNOME on OSX.
>
> And as a nitpick, Linux isn't fully POSIX compliant.

I run windowed linux software from WSL... just run a windows XServer.
Apparently you can run KDE/Gnome... but I'm not sure why you would.
Just let the applications create their own windows in the Windows
environment.


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