Deb packages don't work on WLS

[SeanTAllen]

I'm trying out the Window's Linux Subsystem in Windows 10. I installed ponyc 0.8.0 via our bintray as per instructions in the README. It installs fine but does nothing. You can run ponyc without errors but it doesn't do anything.

ponyc --version prints nothing nor does anything else. its like it starts and ends without doing anything.

I'm opening an issue for this as we should look into eventually.

[Praetonus]

Can you try running it in a debugger to see if it gives any information?

[SeanTAllen]

What sort of information? It doesn't crash or anything of the sort. It just does, nothing.

[Praetonus]

If you put a breakpoint on main in the debugger, does the program stops on it? If it does, what is the assembly code for main?

[SeanTAllen]

@kulibali do you have a machine with WLS you could test to see if this is still an issue?

[chalcolith]

I'll test this on Monday.

[chalcolith]

Ponyc on Ubuntu on Windows 10 works fine for me.