Open equalisysdev opened 1 year ago
Can you set up a Linux distro in the Windows Susbsytem for Linux and use it there? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about
I did so got this error when running opendrop find
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❯ opendrop find
Looking for receivers. Press Ctrl+C to stop ...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/user/.local/bin/opendrop", line 8, in <module>
sys.exit(main())
File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/opendrop/cli.py", line 36, in main
AirDropCli(sys.argv[1:])
File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/opendrop/cli.py", line 101, in __init__
self.find()
File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/opendrop/cli.py", line 121, in find
self.browser = AirDropBrowser(self.config)
File "/home/user/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/opendrop/client.py", line 43, in __init__
raise RuntimeError(
RuntimeError: Interface awdl0 does not have an IPv6 address. Make sure that `owl` is running.
opendrop on master [!] via 🐍 v3.8.10
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It looks like the main issue is they don't have devs with Windows experience on the project, and it can't be run in a virtual machine (i.e. WSL) due to virtualization limitations.
No support for virtual machines and WSL. OWL requires direct access to the Wi-Fi card which means that virtualized environments (except with USB or PCIe passthrough) and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL, see https://github.com/seemoo-lab/owl/issues/8), are not supported.
So it is possible to build it for Windows, but hasn't been done yet.
This project is based on OWL. OSX has a network interface call awdl0 (Apple Wifi Direct Link). OWL do the same job as AWDL. I think it is not easy to port OWL to windows. Once you have port AWDL to window. It will be very easy for you to setup this project on windows.
Windows is one of the device that can't use AirDrop now, so this implementation has a real potential on Windows, so, please make a Windows Version