How to compile faster with WSL 2

Note: This is for Windows only

The steps on the Compile-firmware page work fine for compiling, but you may find it takes around 35 minutes each time. In this guide I will show you how to get that time down to 2 seconds - 1 minute depending on your hardware.

Step 1) Download Ubuntu from the windows store

Step 2) once its opened open up a windows terminal and run wsl -l -v

check it says version 2

If it does not, then run: wsl --set-default-version 2 followed by running wsl --set-version Ubuntu 2

Step 3) Once that is done, open the Ubuntu app again (make sure you have set it up so you get to the console in it)

Step 4) Go to docker on windows and go to settings -> resources -> WSL Integration

Step 5) Toggle Ubuntu on (if its not there, click refresh)

Step 6) Open up your windows file explorer ang in the address bar go to \\wsl$\

Step 7) navigate to Ubuntu/home/{username}/

Step 8) copy your portapack-mayhem folder into your dir above

Step 9) Confirm your Ubuntu WSL instance can see it by going cd ~/portapack-mayhem

Step 10) If its there then you are good to go. Time to run docker docker run -it -v ~/portapack-mayhem:/havoc portapack-dev

Step 11) Profit! It should be compiling super fast now!

You can then set a network share up to your \\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\{username}\portapack-mayhem folder and continue to edit the files from within windows.

(This guide is a WIP, so I may have missed some steps that I will need to add. Let me know jLynx#7987)