Does not work when installed by npm on WSL about clipboardy HOT 3 CLOSED

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The trick is, native windows binaries need to be on a letter drive to run (e.g. C: drive).

Are you sure about this? I just did some debugging on my WSL 1 instance (I don't have WSL2 for testing) and it works fine with a simple change:

1) Initialize a project like this:

/tmp
❯ mkdir clipboard
mkdir: created directory 'clipboard'

/tmp
❯ cd $_

/tmp/clipboard
❯ npm init --yes               
Wrote to /tmp/clipboard/package.json:

{
  "name": "clipboard",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [],
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC"
}



/tmp/clipboard
❯ npm i --save clipboardy             
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN [email protected] No description
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.

+ [email protected]
added 21 packages from 8 contributors and audited 24 packages in 2.721s
found 0 vulnerabilities

2) Add an index.js file with (for testing purposes):

const clipboardy = require('clipboardy');

clipboardy.writeSync('🦄');

3) Change linux in node_modules/clipboardy/index.js line 20 to windows (this is just for testing purposes, not production code).

4) Execute in your shell:

/tmp/clipboard
❯ node index.js

5) Paste (with Ctrl+V or something) into a Windows application and observe clipboardy working.

You can also test the pasting action and you'll see it also works just fine, try it.

I was going to tackle this issue on Issue Hunt but the fix feels quite simple and it's basically point 2 in the original post. I'm not the one who deserves it. Unless I'm missing something here? Perhaps this doesn't quite work on WSL 2?

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