Gentoo overlay for Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) (Deprecated)

This repository contains patches for running Gentoo on WSL.

Installing Gentoo on WSL

The following steps basically follow the instruction https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Install_on_WSL.

1. Installing a Linux instance: Execute the app and wait for the download to complete. Close window when prompt asks new user name.
2. Download Gentoo stage3: Run app again, create folder /root/stage3 download Gentoo through https://www.gentoo.org/downloads. Untar to the folder and close window when done.
3. Navigate to %localappdata%\Packages\appname\LocalState\rootfs in Windows File Explorer and delete bin, etc, lib, lib64, sbin, usr and var. Move these folders under %localappdata%\Packages\appname\LocalState\rootfs\root\stage3 as replacement.
4. Run app again, create new users in shell and change default user with command ubuntu config --default-user username.

Issues and workarounds

1. IPC not supported microsoft/WSL#992: Edit /usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/_emerge/AbstractEbuildProcess.py and set _enable_ipc_daemon to False. Do so for python3.4. These files are installed with sys-apps/portage. To disable ipc support for future update,

• Add USE="-ipc" in /etc/portage/make.conf.
• Put sys-apps/portage -ipc in /etc/portage/profile/package.use.force.

2. locale-gen failed microsoft/WSL#1878:

localedef: ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/spawni.c:360: __spawnix: Assertionec >= 0' failed.
# cd /usr/share/i18n/charmaps/
# gunzip --keep UTF-8.gz
# locale-gen

3. Pulseaudio doesn't work microsoft/WSL#486: Sync the overlay and

# emerge --ask --verbose media-sound/pulseaudio::wsl

4. Emacs failed to build microsoft/WSL#1664

# bash -c "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space"

5. qtgui-5.11.1 emake failed on WSL: https://bugs.gentoo.org/669994

# find /lib /usr/lib /usr/libexec -name '*.so' | xargs strip --remove-section=.note.ABI-tag