install basilisk on windows

[Toguem Saintclair]

please how to install basilisk on windows?

[hamid moezzi]

Hi,

if you have windows 10 installed on your system you can install ubuntu via windows store otherwise you can install cygwin as it is like the terminal on uduntu. if you have windows 10, I can guide you through, since I am currently using basilisk on windows.

[Toguem Saintclair]

I have Windows 8 pro right now.

[hamid moezzi]

Ok, I think windows 8 has windows store, so the first thing is to search on windows store. you should search " ubuntu 16.04" if you could find ubuntu 16.04, then install it and install basilisk on that. If there was no ubuntu for windows 8 in windows store, my first suggestion would be installing windows 10 and installing ubuntu via windows store, but if you cannot do so, there are two other ways:

1. Using softwares such as VMware workstation and installing ubuntu on that. This enables you having ubuntu besides windows.

2. Installing Cygwin on windows. To do so search for Cygwin in google and follow the instructions on cygwin website to install it on windows. Cygwin is like a terminal on windows.

To sum up, I think the best way is to install ubuntu via windows store. If windows 8 does not benefit from ubuntu through windows store, then it is good to install windows 10 on your system. If non of the choices are applicable to you then try the two ways I mentioned above.

Good luck

Hamid

[Stephane Popinet]

You can also use this recipe:

http://basilisk.fr/sandbox/popinet/Debian%20virtual%20appliance

[yf He]

Hi,

My computer has win 10 installed, but I am confused about how to install basilisc. I am glad that if you can help me install it

在 2018年8月1日星期三 UTC+8下午8:57:07，hamid moezzi写道：

[Alexis Berny]

Hi,

in the last versions of Windows 10 (at least for the past 3 years), there is a gnu_linux terminal. This is an emulation of a linux, based on ubuntu.

You have to enable this terminal (it's not activated by default), but you will find plenty of tutorial to do so. Once it's done, you can install basilisk symply by following the instruction on the basilisk website for the linux installation.

I hope this help you

[Wojciech Aniszewski]

Hello all.

I think only Cygwin proposed by Hamid provides a native Windows compilation.

I have decided to actually try , and successfully compiled Basilisk using CygWin. In the screenshot, you can witness basilisk simulation (collapsing torus in 3D and yes, there is torus.exe :)) running natively on WinXP. (Okay, I admit Win XP itself runs in a qemu virtual machine, but that's a minor detail.) To pull this off, I needed an antiquated version of Cygwin that can collaborate with WinXP, but modern W10 Cygwin will be far easier to use.

CygWin is very nearly POSIX-compatibile. It has gcc, flex, ld, gdb and most libraries Basilisk needs. I was *almost* able to get a functional Bview, but fell short of libglx-mesa: perhaps it is available in modern Cygwin. My version also doesn't have darcs available, so I used a tarball to get the source. I even natively ran Gnuplot, so there's a simple plot of multigrid steps visible on a dumb terminal. Emacs is available as well as Vi(m), although of course once in Windows, one may use Windows software (such as the glorious Notepad) to edit the code.

I also tried the 'minimalistic' GNU suite known as MinGW, which is a fork of Cygwin. It fails rather miserably because it's much further from POSIX. Some error examples are visible in the third screenshot: lack of sys/wait.h (actually patchable), but then the incompatibility of the mingw's mkdir() implementation kills the lexer compilation. So, Cygwin is more complete here.

To summarize: Basilisk runs in Windows, as long as you get proper software suite. Cygwin is neither a virtual machine nor a subsystem (no Linux kernel involved), only a collection of GNU tools recompiled for W32.

Not being a Windows user it's hard to judge which solution is the fastest, so definitely all Cygwin, Linux subsystem and virtual Linux should be compared. A "real" Windows machine, with a modern Cygwin installation, sounds promising for Microsoft clients as it's the only native solution.

happy using.
w

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