Compilation fails on WSL Ubuntu

[Oriculus]

I had some issues compiling CDE on W11 WSL Ubuntu... and solved them all by taking a few things into account :

1. Avoid building on the Windows filesystem, but use the Linux filesystem to avoid slow I/O, permissions issues, and case-sensitivity problems.

2.Make sure to add the en_US locale :

sudo locale-gen en_US
sudo locale-gen en_US.UTF-8
sudo update-locale

3.Make sure that WindowsPATH is not taken into account

Add to /etc/wsl.conf
[automount]
enabled=false

[interop]
enabled=true
appendWindowsPath=false

Shutdown WSL via "wsl --shutdown" and start it again to make sure the PATH is indeed not including the Windows PATH. Check via "echo $PATH" in WSL.

[Marco]

Am 07.12.2025 um 12:05:35 Uhr schrieb Oriculus:

CDE compilation fails on my WSL Ubuntu distro while making DtSvc.
Any tips?

Does it fail on vanilla Ubuntu too?

WSL is somehow different, so it is a good idea to exclude it as
possible troublespot.

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Marco

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[Jon Trulson]

Might also be missing an include that's needed on wsl...