Doing some tests under Windows (instead of my usual Ubuntu), I have seen that we can run the Linux AppImage version of Synfig without any problem in WSL.
It supports GUI apps since version 2.
If you didn’t install it yet, it is easy :
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/tutorials/gui-apps
See here for Windows 10 (soon out of support!)
You have then to install a Linux distro from the Windows App Store (it’s free), Ubuntu 24.04.1 is perfect for this.
Set the login and pasword of your choice, not necessarily the same as in Windows, and better not for security reasons.
A few other steps are required; first to avoid annoyance of password prompt:
sudo visudo
At the end of the file add:
your_user_name_here ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Ctrl+o / Enter / Ctrl+x
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install mc p7zip unzip procinfo
sudo apt install libltdl-dev libopus-dev libsm-dev libmlt-dev
sudo apt clean
The last ‘install’ line are libraries that the AppImage will ask for generating errors if missing.
Your C: drive is accessible in /mnt/c
You can start mc (Midnight Commander) to navigate through the file system, it is easier.
You can then download an AppImage (from Github for example).
After, make it executable (chmod +x ./Synfigxxxxxxx.AppImage).
Then it can be started from command line (./Synfigxxxxxxx.AppImage) or pressing Enter when the cursor of mc is above it.
Now you can enjoy the last features available in Synfig without affecting your current Windows install!
