Windows Subsystem for Linux git mergetool meld UnicodeDecodeError

Question

I'm WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) user. I use WSL to simply rsync source code between my host and remote compiling machine (RedHat). I found such a article:

https://www.deptagency.com/en-gb/story/using-meld-as-a-git-merge-tool-on-windows/

which triggers and run GUI windows meld from WSL.

But after following steps from this article, I'm getting this err msg (I've checked if windows EoL were passed):

Traceback (most recent call last): File "bin/meld", line 328, in structured_log_adapter UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte 0x93 in position 103: invalid start byte

Do you have any ideas?

Thanks in advance, BR

Answer 1

I am not sure if it would answer this question, but I needed to run meld within WSL2. Tried apt install meld but since that it's Windows, it doesn't run GTK app. So what I have done was to simply use symbolic link between Windows version of Meld:

ln -s /mnt/c/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Meld/Meld.exe /usr/local/bin/meld

And voila!