Hi, if anyone is interested in doing software development for AROS and you are a Windows user, here is a cool tutorial on how to setup your development environment in a few simple steps: https://arosnews.github.io/how-to-cross-compile-aros-hosted-wsl/

If you have additional question, post them in this thread.

@deadwood

That looks very interesting.

I have a few Windows 10 PC's (and a few Amigas/AROS PC's).

I'll give it a try. I wonder If WSL will be faster at compiling than using a virtual machine.

Interested in your feedback.

One advantage of WSL is that Linux-side filesystem is directly available from Windows side.

Damn, that nvidia driver for linux is massive!!

update: got stuck at:
Fetching gcc-6.5.0 ...
fetch.sh: waiting for process with PID: 93096 to finish downloading...

Using VMWare the Ubuntu filesystem can share with Windows 10 with drag-n-drop.

But I'd like to try WSL to see if it's faster at compiling the source code.

Please delete portssources directory and then restart process from the

"Run the rebuild.sh script" step

Also make sure you have internet connection during the whole build process.

thanks, that did it!

Now I am having another problem, I've pulled the contrib folder into:
> homepixiemyprojectsarosbuildsAROScontrib

thereafter I went to
> homepixiemyprojectsarosbuildscore-linux-x86_64-d

have ran:
> "make -j4 contrib"

and I am now stuck in:

During the build process, several external sources are downloaded. These sources are downloaded only once and cached for future use.

If it happens that there is some network problem during download, the download will fail. Your first option is to repeat the last process step and possibly the download will work (if the network issue was temporary). If that does not work, look into the log and you will see URLs there from where the build process tries to download files. Use this URL to download files manually via browser and then put the files into portssources directory. You might also need to delete some temporary files in portssources directory with names similiar to ones you downloaded.

We will extend the tutorial to cover the case of failed download.

It hanged but eventually it passed, I just wanted to confirm if I didn't messed up in the process