ani-cli on WIndows asking for WSL

[GatewayStar]

When I have WSL disabled it works as normal, but when I have it enabled, it gives me this error.

[fallmake]

When WSL is installed bash is directed to the default WSL environment. Assuming you installed ani-cli using the install instructions with scoop, the scoop shim is a .cmd file that calls bash <path to ani-cli script> which causes windows to try running it in WSL. As your WSL setup isn't ready to run, you get the message. I suppose the easiest way is changing the line executing bash in the shim at C:\Users\<yourusername>\scoop\shims\ani-cli.cmd to something like

@"%USERPROFILE%\scoop\apps\git\current\bin\bash.exe" -c '"/c/Users/<yourusername>/scoop/apps/ani-cli/current/ani-cli" %*'

This assumes you installed git with scoop from the instructions and explicitly uses the bash executable that comes with git so it doesn't get "hijacked" by WSL.

If you update your WSL environment and get it to run, you could run ani-cli through WSL. To do that you'd need to install the dependencies like fzf and mpv in it manually and wouldn't have to change the shim as described above.

[ykhan21]

You could try running ani-cli in Git Bash. This should not get hijacked by wsl. Git Bash could be added as an entry to your Windows Terminal:

Instructions: https://stackoverflow.com/a/70699006/8917573 (If you installed git with scoop, replace C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe with C:\Users\USERNAME\scoop\apps\git\current\bin\bash.exe and C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\share\git\git-for-windows.ico with C:\Users\USERNAME\scoop\apps\git\current\mingw64\share\git\git-for-windows.ico.)

(You could also use wezterm or alacritty with the bash executable. Wezterm has good terminal image support on Windows.)

[ykhan21]

@GatewayStar, see the updated Windows guide in the README. This should solve your issue. Raise a new issue if you have any errors.