Enabling Windows for Linux commands in windows

setup

0. Setup WSL
1. create folder for linux executable symlinks
2. download into folder binary wsl-call.exe from releases default binary is 64 bit, if you want to use 32 bit one wsl-call32.exe should be renamed into wsl-call.exe before use.
3. run wsl-call.exe -all to generate executables which match commands in linux PATH
4. add folder to windows environment PATH

Now you should be able to use any command in linux PATH.

enable particular command

If you want to use Linux shell commands like 'npm', the alias could be created by

wsl-call.exe ~/n/bin/node
wsl-call.exe ~/n/bin/npm

or

wsl-call.exe /usr/bin/node
wsl-call.exe /usr/bin/npm

without full path the linux PATH is used for command invoking

wsl-call.exe ifconfig

The linux full path is preserved in COMMAND.wslpath next to command executable COMMAND.exe

Note for node users

n node manager allows to switch between node/npm versions. But it would keep separate copies for root and main user.

C:\Users\suns\bin>n 8.17.0

By default npm is not available from wsl. To find where npm is used from:

C:\Users\suns>which npm
/usr/local/bin/npm

Then from directory listed in PATH apply following aliasing:

C:\Users\suns\bin>wsl-call.exe /usr/local/bin/npm

Happy coding!