mintty

OK, so the current launcher is C#, right? Actually, I rather said two things: * build the launcher without the VS IDE (which works now) * check whether we can...

It's not a problem to add code to mintty that gets compiled in conditionally, e.g. only when building for wsltty.appx. If that saves us the launcher, I'll gladly do it.

Actually the current repository version supports that already, you just need to rename `mintty.exe` to `wsltty.exe`. If you don't want to install a cygwin environment, I can provide a binary.

Great to see this progress. Actually, testing the execute permissions, if I copy e.g. /bin/ls (from WSL) into the app /bin directory, I can run it from WSL.

Just a note: it's not necessary to pull in C++ just for this function (but maybe there will be other APIs to use): https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb762188%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

Sorry I hadn't responded to this yet. For all three we have other solutions already, or meanwhile (for the backend), also the .minttyrc is not the preferred one, which should...

Released 1.9.0. It is now possible to run a stand-alone wsltty.exe (or mintty.exe if compiled with -DWSLTTY_APPX) which handles the wslbridge backend copying. I'll appreciate a contribution to generate a...

I somehow lost the update to use the latest wslbridge commit. (Would be easier if that were a release eventually...) Add this before makefile section "# default target": ``` #...

> How can I add the wsltty_appx option in mintty makefile? (comment deleted?) Easiest would be to rename mintty.exe to wsltty.exe, so the static option WSLTTY_APPX is not needed. Otherwise...

If mintty does not find a distro-specific icon, it would look for one in the APPDATA places, not in the config directories (like /usr/share...). (The latter, which you may have...