ArchWSL Documentation Known issues
Launcher and Common
Please see wsldl document
glibc
The new version of glibc has compatibility issues with WSL1.
You can use WSL2 to avoid it. <!– Old version of ArchWSL(<17121600) uses patched glibc named glibc-wsl. Because old version of it has bug in spawni.c.
It has been fixed in the official glibc package (=> 2.26-7).
For that reason no patched glibc is needed anymore. –>
fakeroot
fakeroot is using SYSV IPC by default. but WSL1 does not support it now.
You can use fakeroot-tcpᴬᵁᴿ package instead. (WSL2 doesn’t require that)
Download fakeroot-tcp-1.23-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz and run pacman -U fakeroot-tcp-1.23-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz to install.
Qt5
qt >=5.10 library doesn’t work in WSL1. This is an issue with WSL.(Please see Microsoft/WSL#3023)
Please execute this line on root: strip --remove-section=.note.ABI-tag /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5
MySQL 8/MariaDB
MySQL >=8 uses the native AIO interface by default. WSL1 does not support it, so you need to configure it. Edit /etc/my.cnf.d/server.cnf for add innodb_use_native_aio=0 to [mysqld] section.
[mysqld]
innodb_use_native_aio=0
D-Bus
Systemd D-Bus daemon doesn’t work in WSL1. I recommend use dbus-x11ᴬᵁᴿ. Download dbus-x11-1.12.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz and run pacman -U dbus-x11-1.12.16-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz to install.
For start D-Bus daemon, run:
sudo mkdir /run/dbus -p
sudo dbus-daemon --system
systemd/systemctl
WSL does not supports systemd. I recommend use systemctl alternative script or bottle.
WSL1 / WSL2
You can use a systemctl alternative script. However, this is only partially compatible.
Download systemd-altctl-1.4.4181-1-any.pkg.tar.xz and run pacman -U systemd-altctl-1.4.4181-1-any.pkg.tar.xz to install.
WSL2
You can use systemd bottle “subsystemctl” or “genie”.
Using it, you can run systemd completely.
subsystemctl
You can download PKGBUILD and build it.
genie
You can use PKGBUILDs from here.