Hi SMAUG friends,

I simply cannot give up on my love for SMAUG-derived codebases and in particular SMAUGFUSS. I'm now running a Windows 11 PC and figured I would give Windows Subsystem for Linux a try to see if the compiling process will be any smoother than it has been with Cygwin in recent years. I am running the default Ubuntu installation that WSL installs.

I installed gcc and g++ as well as the zlib1g-dev package. When I go to compile using MAKE, it compiles all .o files and reaches the "Done compiling mud." line without errors. Then, these errors follow:

Compiling o/update.o....
Compiling o/variables.o....
Compiling o/weather.o....
Generating dependency file ...
Done compiling mud.
chmod: changing permissions of 'smaug': Operation not permitted
make[1]: *** [Makefile:77: smaug] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:46: all] Error 2

Perhaps you wizards could offer some advice? My gratitude would be a-plenty.

I haven't tried WSL or anything different. I just kept kicking Cygwin until it finally worked 100%. Now I'm scared to touch it again though.