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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Anecdote: I have an IDE that only works on Windows that can build applications for Linux. I use MinGW as part of the packaging process (AND I FUCKING HATE IT OH MY GOD. All of the pathing is broken!). As of yesterday I learned that WSL is a thing that might replace MinGW and make some processes of packaging for linux targets a little easier.

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  • I've used both. What I can tell you is that moving to WSL is like moving to Linux wholesale. Treat it like porting your toolchain.

    IIRC, MinGW tools will happily take windows style paths (e.g. "C:\Users~myuser\projects"). If your tooling/scripting depends on being able to use Windows style paths, you'll have to fix that first or you're going to have a really bad time. There may be other small differences between MinGW tools and what ships on Ubuntu (or whatever Linux you decide to use in the WSL).

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