Update Wubiuefi installer to the latest version 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat)

[WWarrior64]

No problem to report, only that I just wish the installer could run the latest version of Ubuntu (24.04)

[mreymann]

I would love to have this, too! :-)

[tarunsamal]

Same here waiting for 24.04 :)

[caner-cetin]

Bump, that would be cool. 20.04 -> 22.04 -> 24.04 is not hard to do once installing 20.04 but still.

[MathiasMagnus]

@WWarrior64 Did you recompile wubiuefi or did you provide command-line options to it? How exactly did you get 24.04 working?

I tried supplying command-line args to wubi.exe, ones found here, but the installer does nothing. I also tried recompiling by installing the dependencies listed in the official docs (gettext build-essential grub-pc mingw32), but MinGW is called something else in both 22.04 and 24.04 (mingw-w64), but running make doesn't finish.

I changed data/isolist.ini to have the entry

[Ubuntu-amd64]
max_iso_size=3700000000
arch=amd64
name=Ubuntu
packages=ubuntu-desktop
metalink=http://releases.ubuntu.com/noble/ubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.list
metalink2=http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/noble/daily-live/pending/noble-desktop-amd64.list
website=http://www.ubuntu.com
ordering=1

however upon building it errors on the step

grub-mkimage -O x86_64-efi -c build/winboot/wubildr-bootstrap.cfg -m build/winboot/wubildr.tar -o build/winboot/EFI/grubx64.efi \
        loadenv part_msdos part_gpt fat ntfs ext2 ntfscomp iso9660 loopback search linux linuxefi boot minicmd cat cpuid chain halt help ls reboot \
        echo test configfile gzio normal sleep memdisk tar font gfxterm gettext true efi_gop efi_uga video_bochs video_cirrus probe efifwsetup \
        all_video gfxterm_background png gfxmenu
grub-mkimage: error: cannot open `/usr/lib/grub/x86_64-efi/linuxefi.mod': No such file or directory.

I'm running this in WSL2, which is as close as I can get to a Linux environment without having to fire up a full-blown VM just to compile wubi.exe.

What am I doing wrong?

[MathiasMagnus]

I got a little further, but now there is a crash inside pypack

PYTHONPATH=src tools/pywine -OO src/pypack/pypack --verbose --bytecompile --outputdir=build/wubi src/main.py data build/bin build/version.py build/winboot build/translations
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "src/pypack/pypack", line 25, in <module>
    from libpypack.application import Application
  File "Z:\home\mate\Develop\wubiuefi\src\pypack\libpypack\application.py", line 24, in <module>
    from modulegraph.find_modules import find_modules
  File "Z:\home\mate\Develop\wubiuefi\src\pypack\modulegraph\find_modules.py", line 21, in <module>
    import modulegraph
  File "Z:\home\mate\Develop\wubiuefi\src\pypack\modulegraph\modulegraph.py", line 24, in <module>
    from altgraph.ObjectGraph import ObjectGraph
  File "Z:\home\mate\Develop\wubiuefi\src\pypack\altgraph\ObjectGraph.py", line 5, in <module>
    from altgraph.GraphUtil import filter_stack
  File "Z:\home\mate\Develop\wubiuefi\src\pypack\altgraph\GraphUtil.py", line 7, in <module>
    import random
  File "c:\python27\lib\random.py", line 887, in <module>
    _inst = Random()
  File "c:\python27\lib\random.py", line 97, in __init__
    self.seed(x)
  File "c:\python27\lib\random.py", line 115, in seed
    a = long(_hexlify(_urandom(2500)), 16)
WindowsError: [Error -2146893801] Windows Error 0x80090017

[mreymann]

@MathiasMagnus I think there is some misunderstanding here. @WWarrior64 wishes that the installer can run the latest version of Ubuntu. I don't think he claims that the installer can run the latest version of Ubuntu!
This is more of a humble request for a new release that we all long for.

[WWarrior64]

@MathiasMagnus I think there is some misunderstanding here. @WWarrior64 wishes that the installer can run the latest version of Ubuntu. I don't think he claims that the installer can run the latest version of Ubuntu!

Yes that right. Sorry, I'm not very good at English, the thing that I tried to said is that it would be good the installer can run Ubuntu 24.04 Sorry for the misinterpreting

[hakuna-m]

Sorry, for my late reply. I will create new releases for Wubiuefi soon.

[tarunsamal]

Thank you @hakuna-m

[mreymann]

Thank you! I love Wubiuefi!

[litmount]

Sorry, for my late reply. I will create new releases for Wubiuefi soon.

Awesome! looking forward to it! thanks for your work!

[mreymann]

Will there be a new Wubi release once 24.04.1 is out?