# Using WSL to Build a Release

WSL (Windows System for Linux) is an alternative to using Cygwin
when building a Windows release of SML/NJ.

## Installing WSL

Instructions for installing Windows Subsytem for Linux at

        https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install

wsl --install

<reboot>

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

sudo apt install subversion

Note that the Windows file system is rooted at "/mnt/c/".

## Fetching the Files

We use WSL to fetch the various files from the distribution server.

## Building a Release

Set the SMLNJ_HOME variable

