WSL is the Windows Subsystem for Linux, which allows you to run Linux applications inside Windows. It is available in recent builds of Windows 10 (>19041) and in Windows 11. Because Babylon Native apps are GUI applications, you will need WSL version 2.
Follow these instructions to prepare a WSL environment with GUI support. Babylon Native has been tested on Ubuntu; other distributions may or may not work.
Once your environment is ready, you can open an Ubuntu shell and navigate to /mnt to view your Windows filesystem. (If you're using Windows Terminal, new WSL tabs will open directly in %USERPROFILE%.)
From there you can find your BabylonNative directory and create a new ubuntu directory under build. Then, proceed with the instructions in the readme for Building on Ubuntu, Targeting Linux, using ../.. as your path for CMake rather than ...
After you run ninja, you can launch the playground by running /Apps/Playground/Playground. You should see a playground window appear, and output will be displayed in your shell.
