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WSL2 host access for local development & testing from other devices in the LAN

1. Get some input info

Get the ip address of the wsl2 host. Note: worth considering if you have multiple, to do a wsl --shutdown && wsl to clean it up, and also set the preferred host/distro directly using wsl (see: wsl --help about setting defaults).

Anyway, to get that ip (note the -I and not the -i):

Sources

base for cube.c: https://www.opengl.org/archives/resources/code/samples/glut_examples/examples/cube.c
more complex example: https://gist.github.com/hkulekci/2300262

Prereqs (install opengl & glut)

$ sudo apt-get install freeglut3-dev

$ git clone https://git.samba.org/samba.git
$ brew install jansson
$ brew install readline && brew link --force readline
$ cpan # then w/in cpan install Parse::Yapp module (might be 'install Term::Parse::Yapp')
$ brew intsall libarchive
$ export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/libarchive/lib"
$ export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/libarchive/include"
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/samba --without-ad-dc --without-acl-support

	#!/bin/bash
	# Get current swap usage for all running processes
	# Erik Ljungstrom 27/05/2011
	# Modified by Mikko Rantalainen 2012-08-09
	# Pipe the output to "sort -nk3" to get sorted output
	# Modified by Marc Methot 2014-09-18
	# removed the need for sudo

	SUM=0
	OVERALL=0

	# WSL2_PORT_FORWARDING.ps1
	# This script created by Brian Ketelsen (https://www.brianketelsen.com/blog/ssh-to-wsl2/
	# and trivially patched by Thomas Willey 12/2020
	# PURPOSE: Enable local development in WSL2 and expose webservers/services over IP from w/in WSL2 to local network of windows machine
	# Use example scenario:
	# 1. open WSL2, start server (e.g., python3 http.server 0.0.0.0:8000), and try to visit from win machine (e.g., http://localhost:8000) - notice it fails to resolve.
	# 2. open powershell as administrator and run this script
	# 3. refresh the page on your win machine's browser (http://localhost:8000) and see that it loads up.
	# 4. bonus: mDNS should work. So you can access from e.g., your phone on local wifi to http://<windows hostname>.local:8000

	```txt
	- download old libssl1.0 from https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/libssl1.0.0
	- follow the steps on this gist [https://gist.github.com/thomaswilley/1f109a3936990ac48326faf0fd917c24] to retrieve the needed files from "data.tar.xz"
	- figure out where libssl1.1* got installed
	$ dpkg -L libssl1.1
	# on my system I see:
	# /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.1
	# /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.1
	- figure out where dcvviewer is keeping its sort of 'local' libraries (so we don't have to make this old ssl globally available)
	$ dpkg -L nice-dcv-viewer

	# unpack the package
	ar x nice-dcv-viewer_2020.1.1545-1_amd64.ubuntu1804.deb
	# untar the control info
	xz -d control.tar.xz
	tar xf control.tar
	# edit control (replace libssl dependency with "libssl1.1 (>= 1.0.2~beta3)"
	vim control # make those edits ^
	# tar up the control info
	tar c postinst postrm shlibs triggers md5sums control \| xz -c > control.tar.xz
	# repackage the package (this time replacing 1804 w/2004)

	inoremap kj <Esc>
	syntax enable

	let g:solarized_termcolors=16
	set t_Co=16
	set background=light
	colorscheme solarized

	set lines=40
	set columns=80

	# generate 5000 chars
	tr -dc A-Za-z0-9 </dev/urandom \| head -c 5000 ; echo ''