AW: Trouble with new lo-build

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi *,

On Thu, Jul 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM Ilmari Lauhakangas
<ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org> wrote:
> On 7/3/25 13:08, Juergen Funk wrote:
> > When i try to install with wsl --install
> > i get the error (sorry is in german)
>
> We have instructions for WSL here, but they haven't been updated after
> the Meson and pkgconf additions:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWSLWindows
>
> If you get it to work, it would be great, if you updated the article :)

Note that there are the handy dandy winget configuration files in
core-repo/.config – that method is ultimately what replaces lode in
wsl-as-helper style builds.

winget configure -f configuration.winget as admin to install visual
studio and necessary components (you can also manually pass the
2022.vsconfig file to the Visual Studio installer/load it in the
installer UI)
winget configure -f admin_java_and_deps.winget as admin to fetch
external deps and install java and make sure that wsl is installed
(feel free to edit the steps, and for example remove the wsl
install/check step since the file assumes defaults/wsl2 or if you
don't want to install java that way)
winget configure -f user_steps.winget as the user you want to build
as, that'll set up the build env, i.e. extracts the downloaded deps
and similar, again feel free to edit or to just have a look at what is
done and how. You can for example also use the cloud-init trick to
install the distro with the desired packages and user account and also
creates a sample autogen.input pointing to the deps (you should remove
the MESON and PKG_CONFIG lines however to use the builtin meson and
let configure find pkgconf, will submit a patch to adjust for current
state)

ciao
Christian