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doc,win: clarify WSL support
Fixes: #13471 PR-URL: #17008 Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Joyee Cheung <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Timothy Gu <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Hitesh Kanwathirtha <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>
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In "Git bash" if you call the node shell alias (`node` without the `.exe`
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extension), `winpty` is used automatically.
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The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is not directly supported, but the
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GNU/Linux build process and binaries should work. The community will only
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address issues that reproduce on native GNU/Linux systems. Issues that only
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reproduce on WSL should be reported in the
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[WSL issue tracker](https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues). Running the
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Windows binary (`node.exe`) in WSL is not recommended, and will not work
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without adjustment (such as stdio redirection).
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### Supported toolchains
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Depending on host platform, the selection of toolchains may vary.

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