So, it turns out that WSL2 is actually kind of neat, where it runs a Linux image at almost native speed, and also supports Wayland.
So, what’s the first thing you do in WSL2? Install Emacs of course!
Below is the script I use to install Emacs on an Ubuntu image.
To know what the latest stable version on master is, I look at this Github issue from Jim Myhrberg, who keeps track of those.
# Checkout Emacs
$ git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/emacs.git
# Checkout latest stable version, see note above.
$ git checkout 8febda4
# Vanilla Emacs requirements
$ sudo apt install build-essential autoconf libgtk-3-dev libgnutls28-dev libtiff5-dev libgif-dev libjpeg-dev libpng-dev librsvg2-dev libxpm-dev libncurses-dev texinfo adwaita-icon-theme-full
# Native compilation requirements
$ sudo apt install libgccjit-11-dev
# Required for Native JSON
$ sudo apt install libjansson4 libjansson-dev
# Required for tree-sitter support
$ sudo apt install libtree-sitter-dev
$ cd emacs
$ export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-11 CXX=/usr/bin/gcc-11
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure --with-pgtk --with-native-compilation --with-tree-sitter --with-json --without-pop
$ make -j$(nproc)
$ sudo make install
And, sometimes when you update the repository, it refuses to build. I usually fix that with running make bootstrap er make distclean.