Hi,
max wrote:
...for some reason they seem to have removed it from the repositories. I've built it in Cygwin by hand previously, but for some reason it didn't build all the tools
GRUB failing to build is what pushed me in to WSL too and I've never looked back. IIRC, it was first Cygwin 64 that failed for me and then GRUB started not to build in the 32 bit version too(?). I've tested several "latest release" GCC and binutils builds and they all work as per the wiki (follow instructions for apt-based systems).
In fact, I've previously
mentioned on the forums that I think WSL should become our default recommendation for Windows users as it is now out of beta and a mainline Windows feature.
There is one "catch". If you want to edit your files in a Windows-based IDE, you need to store your files in your normal Windows filesystem and then symlink in WSL. This is the only way to ensure that both systems see the same file version. It's very easy - a simple "ln -s /mnt/c/Users/n/Documents/myproject" is all that is needed. I run GCC and my build process from WSL and use the Eclipse IDE.
Cheers,
Adam