Install on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows (WSL) about electron-prebuilt

[dougmaitelli]

Maybe even better to avoid problems with other packages:

"install-wsl": "npm install && npm uninstall electron && export npm_config_platform=win32 && npm install electron && unset npm_config_platform"

[dougmaitelli]

You can use npm_config_platform environment variable to force Ubuntu Bash on Windows to install correct version:

"scripts": {
    "install-wsl": "export npm_config_platform=win32 && npm install",

Then run npm run install-wsl

[DanMossa]

You are an amazing human being an deserve all the praise in the world

[thernstig]

Nothing new for now afaik. I guess it will always stay a bit hackish because WSL is not a standard OS for building desktop applications. The thing is we are executing a GUI on the Windows OS from a separated non-graphical OS (the Ubuntu subsystem) and only this is absolutely crazy when you think about it, so I can't see any way this could become more practical in the future. Le 26 oct. 2017 22:24, "David Karlsson" [email protected] a écrit :
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Has it gotten any easier to use Electron in WSL since this was posted? This seems extremely tedious and I can't even get it to work. Granted with a vue-electron template, but still. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#260 (comment)>, or mute the thread https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFV5l7bRGDX9DsYdvV4us0SzgIAU4pg8ks5swOp1gaJpZM4NppYx .

I found this a bit funny now that this is actually happening. WSL2 will be able to run Linux GUI apps in Windows. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/the-windows-subsystem-for-linux-build-2020-summary/#wsl-gui

[valorad]

Thanks bro, you saved my day! :)
Currently haven't found any incompatibility yet (v1.7.3), but have to delete Linux version of electron and then install Windows version manually every time after package upgrades.

[ClementParis016]

Indeed, you have to do it for every update, but anyway this is just a hack to work around an issue with WSL that should be resolved in next updates from Microsoft.

Still, I bet we could find a way to colocate Windows & Linux Electron binaries, I've seen Yarn has a sort of package aliasing system that could be a good starting point.

[PierBover]

Thanks for the tip. It worked for me too.

I had previously installed the linux version in bash and I had to delete the node_modules/electron folder and the install from Windows CMD.

[ClementParis016]

Indeed, you could also npm uninstall electron then npm install electron

[ClementParis016]

I didn't know Electron was using the npm_config_platform var.
That's smart @dougmaitelli , have you tried it? It makes complete sense to tweak the platform var though.

[dougmaitelli]

@ClementParis016 Yes, I just tried it before posting :)

Works perfectly, I did not know about this var before, was just looking into the install code from electron to find something similar then I found this var.

[daphen]

Has it gotten any easier to use Electron in WSL since this was posted? This seems extremely tedious and I can't even get it to work. Granted with a vue-electron template, but still.

[ClementParis016]

Nothing new for now afaik. I guess it will always stay a bit hackish because WSL is not a standard OS for building desktop applications. The thing is we are executing a GUI on the Windows OS from a separated non-graphical OS (the Ubuntu subsystem) and only this is absolutely crazy when you think about it, so I can't see any way this could become more practical in the future. Le 26 oct. 2017 22:24, "David Karlsson" <[email protected]> a écrit :

…

Has it gotten any easier to use Electron in WSL since this was posted? This seems extremely tedious and I can't even get it to work. Granted with a vue-electron template, but still. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#260 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AFV5l7bRGDX9DsYdvV4us0SzgIAU4pg8ks5swOp1gaJpZM4NppYx> .

[daphen]

Right, I didn't even think of that.
Thanks.