Issues running on Windows Subsytem for Linux (WSL)

[nbgraham]

I'm trying to develop on WSL. I was able to bootstrap and run tests successfully, but seeing errors on npm run app-start

This is probably not worth investigating, but I wanted to at least raise it, mostly so other people don't try this inside WSL.

libnss3 error

libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Solution:

apt install libnss3-dev libgdk-pixbuf2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libxss-dev

https://stackoverflow.com/a/71756304

The recommendation in the README may have also worked.

/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket error

Failed to connect to the bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket

Solution:

$ sudo mkdir -p /run/dbus
$ sudo dbus-daemon --system

microsoft/WSL#2941

GLIBC_2.32 error

Error: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.32' not found

Looks complicated to solve: https://askubuntu.com/a/1228256

[filfreire]

@nbgraham I tried WSL a while back and the GLIBC_2.32 specific error in my case happened due to using an "older" distro, like using Ubuntu 20 instead of 22

After upgrading to Ubuntu 22, the GLIBC_2.32 error should be gone.

As for running the app-start I'm using VcsSrvX, following steps in this post: https://www.beekeeperstudio.io/blog/building-electron-windows-ubuntu-wsl2

[filfreire]

Update: seems to be working for me for Ubuntu 22 on WSL, example: