Closed Bug 1352751 Opened 8 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Support Win32 builds through the Windows Subsystem for Linux

Categories

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox Build System
Component:
General
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1311729

People

(Reporter: bas.schouten, Unassigned)

Details

As per the creator's update, available through the insider preview program and which will be released in the coming weeks. WSL will now be able to execute Win32 executables, this includes cl.exe. It seems that this should make it possible to run our build system in the WSL while using win32 as a build target. This will probably offer a big speed improvement (at least the GCC build on WSL takes the same time for me as it does in native linux), and will hopefully long-term convince more developers to work on windows as they'll be working in a shell they're comfortable with, with reasonable build times.
My recollection is that Ted has been playing with this already. Path handling was an issue IIRC.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → Firefox Build System
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