WSL-DistroLauncher

General Purpose WSL Distribution Installer & Launcher

Requirements

Windows 10 1709 Fall Creators Update 64bit or later.
Windows Subsystem for Linux feature is enabled.

Install with prebuilt rootfs

1. Download installer zip

Alpine Linux

Arch Linux

2. Extract all files in zip file to same directory

3.Run exe to Extract rootfs and Register to WSL

Exe filename is using to the instance name to register. If you rename it, you can register with a different name.

Install with any rootfs

1. Download Launcher.exe

2. Rename it for distribution name to register.

(Ex:Rename to Arch.exe if you want to "Arch" for the Instance name)

3. Put your rootfs.tar.gz in same directory as exe (Installation directory)

4. Run exe to install. This process may take a few minutes.

How-to-Use(for Installed Instance)

exe Usage

Usage :
    <no args>
      - Launches the distro's default behavior. By default, this launches your default shell.

    run <command line>
      - Run the given command line in that distro. Inherit current directory.

    config [setting [value]]
      - `--default-user <user>`: Set the default user for this distro to <user>
      - `--default-uid <uid>`: Set the default user uid for this distro to <uid>
      - `--append-path <on|off>`: Switch of Append Windows PATH to $PATH
      - `--mount-drive <on|off>`: Switch of Mount drives

    get [setting]
      - `--default-uid`: Get the default user uid in this distro
      - `--append-path`: Get on/off status of Append Windows PATH to $PATH
      - `--mount-drive`: Get on/off status of Mount drives
      - `--lxuid`: Get LxUID key for this distro

    clean
     - Uninstalls the distro.

    help
      - Print this usage message.

Just Run exe

>{InstanceName}.exe
[root@PC-NAME user]#

Run with command line

>{InstanceName}.exe run uname -r
4.4.0-43-Microsoft

Change Default User(id command required)

>{InstanceName}.exe config --default-user user

>{InstanceName}.exe
[user@PC-NAME dir]$

How to uninstall instance

>{InstanceName}.exe clean

How-to-Build

Can build with MSYS2 mingw-w64 gcc.

Install x86_64 version of MSYS2 https://www.msys2.org

run these commands in msys shell

$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain # install tool chain
$ mingw-w64-x86_64-g++ main.cpp -o Launcher.exe # conpile main.c

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