Issues about installing from source on WSL(windows subsystem for linux)

Support
#1

Hi，
thanks very much for developing this applicaiton and sharing it for free. I have been using the software for >4months, and I really enjoyed it a lot. At the same time, I would also like to contribute to project in some way, so I try to install the souce code on my PC, but I run into some issues.

Does anyone by chance know if installing from source codes on WSL works as well?

I am following the tutorial to install the souce code on my WSL, I successfully followed through all the steps before “make build”. But when I run “make build”, it was not successful because of " Installing evdev (1.4.0): Failed".

The error is related with the following issues:

The ‘linux/input.h’ and ‘linux/input-event-codes.h’ include files
are missing. You will have to install the kernel header files in
order to continue:

    yum install kernel-headers-$(uname -r)
    apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
    emerge sys-kernel/linux-headers
    pacman -S kernel-headers

I tried these commands, but they doesn’t work. So i am curious to know if this is a general issue for all WSL(i.e. dose the installing also works on WSL) or just a issue for myself.

If anyone has installed the souce codes successfuly on WSL, please let me know. Thanks in advance!

Kind Regards,
Eric

Installing from soucre error on windows 10
#2

Yes, basically neither WSL nor WSL2 have the linux header package available. This is discussed in several places on SO.
I’ve seen a possible solution here for WSL2 (archive).
I haven’t tried it though.

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#3

thank you for the information! I didn’t try the method suggested in the link, but it indeed gave me a clue to find my solution.

I realized I firstly need to build an x86-64 WSL2 kernel by following the instructions from
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel

  1. Install the build dependencies:
    $ sudo apt install build-essential flex bison libssl-dev libelf-dev
  2. Build the kernel using the WSL2 kernel configuration:
    $ make KCONFIG_CONFIG=Microsoft/config-wsl

Once the kernel was build, the installation worked successfully on my WSL2.

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