Building Emacs on WSL

[Angelo Graziosi]

Just out of curiosity, I tried to build Emacs (master) on Windows 
Subsystem Linux (WSL) [*] but it always hangs at this point:

./autogen.sh

./configure --prefix=/opt/emacs --without-x
[...]
Configured for 'x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu'.

  Where should the build process find the source code?    .
  What compiler should emacs be built with?               gcc 
-std=gnu11 -g3 -O2
  Should Emacs use the GNU version of malloc?             yes
      (Using Doug Lea's new malloc from the GNU C Library.)
  Should Emacs use a relocating allocator for buffers?    no
  Should Emacs use mmap(2) for buffer allocation?         no
  What window system should Emacs use?                    none
  What toolkit should Emacs use?                          none
  Where do we find X Windows header files?                NONE
  Where do we find X Windows libraries?                   NONE
  Does Emacs use -lXaw3d?                                 no
  Does Emacs use -lXpm?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -ljpeg?                                  yes
  Does Emacs use -ltiff?                                  no
  Does Emacs use a gif library?                           no
  Does Emacs use a png library?                           no
  Does Emacs use -lrsvg-2?                                no
  Does Emacs use cairo?                                   no
  Does Emacs use imagemagick?                             no
  Does Emacs support sound?                               yes
  Does Emacs use -lgpm?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -ldbus?                                  no
  Does Emacs use -lgconf?                                 no
  Does Emacs use GSettings?                               no
  Does Emacs use a file notification library?             yes -lglibc 
(inotify)
  Does Emacs use access control lists?                    yes -lacl
  Does Emacs use -lselinux?                               no
  Does Emacs use -lgnutls?                                yes
  Does Emacs use -lxml2?                                  yes
  Does Emacs use -lfreetype?                              no
  Does Emacs use -lm17n-flt?                              no
  Does Emacs use -lotf?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -lxft?                                   no
  Does Emacs use -lsystemd?                               no
  Does Emacs directly use zlib?                           yes
  Does Emacs have dynamic modules support?                no
  Does Emacs use toolkit scroll bars?                     no
  Does Emacs support Xwidgets (requires gtk3)?            no
[...]

make
[...]
make -C ../lisp update-subdirs
make[2]: ingresso nella directory 
"/home/angelog/work/emacs-e63c489dd496e53b68b942d0b76e13b62117fae9/lisp"
make[2]: uscita dalla directory 
"/home/angelog/work/emacs-e63c489dd496e53b68b942d0b76e13b62117fae9/lisp"
./temacs --batch  --load loadup bootstrap

(I waited for almost an hour)

I tried with a master of a few days ago which surely build and works on 
GNU/Linux Mint 18, Windows (MSYS2/MinGW64) and macOS.

Just out of curiosity...

Ciao,
 Angelo.


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[*] It seems that someone succeeded in that build 
(http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-12/msg00339.html)