Add information on Windows support with WSL

[yklcs]

Polynote works on Windows with WSL Ubuntu!
Might be worth it mentioning it in the README or website.

[jonathanindig]

Welcome @RocketLL, thanks for trying out Polynote and getting it working on Windows, that's great! We'd definitely welcome a PR with Windows instructions :)

[thesimonho]

@jonathanindig are there any plans for windows support without having to go through WSL?

[jonathanindig]

Hi @sho-87, PRs always welcome!

[ctivanovich]

@RocketLL I've got the server up and running in WSL 2, but can't seem to connect to it through chrome. Any extra set-up needed beyond the basic instructions?

[yklcs]

@ctivanovich More details would help. Does the server start up normally? Which address are you connecting to?

[ctivanovich]

Yeah, it starts up normally, and I connect to the default address of 127.0.0.1:8192. All looks green in the console, no errors, just, page fails to load in the browser, Chrome's ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED. I regularly run local servers on this machine, so firewall shouldn't be an issue.

Output of netstat:

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State       PID/Program name
tcp6       0      0 127.0.0.1:8192          :::*                    LISTEN      478/java

[ctivanovich]

Any updates on this?

[jeremyrsmith]

@ctivanovich see #671 – I guess WSL is in a container, so its network is sandboxed; if you listen on 0.0.0.0 then it apparently works.

Also see microsoft/WSL#4338 (comment) – looks like the underlying issue is fixed after WSL build 18970+ (so you wouldn't even need to configure the listen address)