Building¶

The app is experimental and was made for prototyping purposes.

It is currently not available as a packaged release.

This guide covers building both the CLI and GUI components.

Tip

If you don’t want to build the app, release artifacts are provided in the GitHub releases provided in the repo.

Prerequisites¶

For the fastest setup, use the provided batch files:

git clone https://github.com/edibotopic/wslp
cd wslp
./build.bat

This builds both the CLI and GUI in one step.

After building:

Running rungui.bat automatically starts the server also.

The CLI is a Go application using Cobra for command-line interface.

You first need to clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/edibotopic/wslp

cd wslp
go build -o wslp.exe

This creates an executable wslp.exe in the current directory.

go install

This installs wslp to your $GOPATH/bin directory.

The GUI is a Flutter application that communicates with the Go backend via HTTP.

cd gui

flutter build windows

The compiled application will be in gui/build/windows/runner/Release/.

The GUI requires the backend server to be running.

Start it with:

wslp.exe serve

Then run the GUI.

go run main.go [command]

Example:

go run main.go list

cd gui
flutter run -d windows

go test ./...

go test -cover ./...

go test ./internal/wsl
go test ./cmd

Since WSL Plus is Windows-specific, cross-compilation to other platforms is not supported.