Re: [GNC-dev] WSL 2 and GnuCash

2023-11-30 Thread john
Sherlock, Thanks for testing that. It's great that it works and it's worth adding to the wiki. But I think it's a bit too technical for many of our Windows users. Regards, John Ralls > On Nov 30, 2023, at 17:45, Sherlock wrote: > > If you haven’t recently, you may want to evaluate WSL again.

Re: [GNC-dev] WSL 2 and GnuCash

2023-11-30 Thread Sherlock
If you haven’t recently, you may want to evaluate WSL again. I’ve been successful using the distribution GnuCash (4.8), the flatpack GnuCash (5.4.1), and a GnuCash build environment on the default WSL distro (ubuntu) without any additional software or configuration required on Windows

Re: [GNC-dev] WSL 2 and GnuCash

2020-07-26 Thread John Ralls
Oh. I thought that WSL2 didn't require the XServer. I did look at the WSL2 installation page (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10) yesterday and it's indeed a geeks-only undertaking at this point. It looks like we'll be stuck with MinGW for the foreseeable future.

Re: [GNC-dev] WSL 2 and GnuCash

2020-07-26 Thread Chris Graves
>From memory... and unfortunately at this point,not user friendly. With Windows 10 version 2004 installed: Open the Turn Windows Features on or off dialog Select Windows Subsystem for Linux and Virtual Machine Platform options Installed to WSL, a very striped down Fedora from

Re: [GNC-dev] WSL 2 and GnuCash

2020-07-25 Thread John Ralls
> On Jul 25, 2020, at 10:32 AM, Chris Graves wrote: > > GnuCash on Fedora in WSL2 on Windows 10. Launched from desktop shortcut. > > https://imgur.com/a/ORivN9q > ___ Cool. How did you install it? Regards, John Ralls

[GNC-dev] WSL 2 and GnuCash

2020-07-25 Thread Chris Graves
GnuCash on Fedora in WSL2 on Windows 10. Launched from desktop shortcut. https://imgur.com/a/ORivN9q ___ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel