From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2021 08:06:27 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Buildroot on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) In-Reply-To: (Christian Stewart's message of "Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:52:30 -0800") References: <87h7njrilt.fsf@paral.in> <878s8qf1cm.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <87ft2xe77w.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Christian" == Christian Stewart writes: > Hi Peter, > On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 12:15 PM Peter Korsgaard wrote: >> >> >>>>> "Christian" == Christian Stewart writes: >> > The Buildroot system works as expected in the WSL environment. The >> > buildroot output tar.gz can be imported directly into WSL 2.0. WSL 1.0 >> > requires using the WSL-DistroLauncher project to load the distribution >> > via a Windows Appx. >> >> > This is an interesting way to use Buildroot under Windows. >> >> Cute. Besides the fact that you are booting a (heavily patched) Linux >> kernel, is there any specific advantages to just creating a docker >> container or a classic VM from a Buildroot build? > By my (limited) understanding, WSL2 promises tighter integration > between Linux and the Windows OS. > I haven't tested it, but docs say you can override the kernel image. You haven't tested it? Didn't the defconfig you point to build a Linux kernel as well? -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard