Visual Studio and Linux?

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Visual Studio and Linux?

a_unique_name 401

Hello Folks:

I've recently been invited to work on a Linux project.

It's been about 20 years since I had the joy of developing under Solaris so I'm excited.

Last night I installed WSL. Umbutu is now running on a virtual machine under Windows.

I have been using Visual Studio for the last two decades

When we install or modify Visual Studio we see this among our choices:

linux

As you can see I did check the option, but I'm not seeing an obvious method to "Create and debug applications running in a Linux environment."

The option sounds like there is a Visual Studio that runs as a Linux application, but I'm fine if VS runs on Windows and there is seamless workflow with Linux running on the virtual machine.

What's the situation with debugging Visual Studio code running on Linux?

These pages make me wonder what the above screenshot is talking about:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/177175/visual-studio-for-linux

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2022/07/26/vs-linux.aspx

There is Visual Studio Code for Linux, but isn't that more of an editor than an IDE?

Thanks
Larry

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Anna Xiu-MSFT 31,056 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @a_unique_name ,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

After installing the workload, you can use the Visual Studio on Windows to create and debug C++ projects that execute on a remote Linux system, virtual machine, or the WSL.

For more details, you can refer to: Linux with Visual Studio C++ documentation.

By the way, for Visual Studio IDE, it is installed on Windows. The Visual Studio is not supported on Linux system currently.

Sincerely,

Anna

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a_unique_name 401 Reputation points

2023-02-28T06:11:35.6866667+00:00

Thanks Anna:

That link Linux with Visual Studio C++ looks like what I've been looking for.

When I attempted to setup the development environment as instructed I saw the following text in the terminal window:

$ sudo apt install g++ gdb make ninja-build rsync zip
[sudo] password for larryl:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Package ninja-build is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'ninja-build' has no installation candidate

I have no experience with virtual machines, or Linux running on a virtual machine, or Umbutu.

I wondered Umbutu was talking to the Internet, but I was able to ping CNN.com from the terminal.

I created a simple hello_world.cpp but attempts to compile it with g++ were met with:

Command 'g++' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install g++

I already failed to install g++, so I tried installing gcc:

$ sudo apt install gcc

Attempts to copy lines of text from the Umbutu terminal window to Notepad, so I can show them in this response, don't paste with proper line breaks. I know about the CR and CRLF difference between Windows and Linux but I don't know how to get around the problem. Can you show me a method to copy and paste between WSL terminals and Notebook windows?

The install looked like it was working, but finished out with these lines that seem to indicate a problem:

Get:30 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 libgd3 amd64 2.3.0-2ubuntu2 [129 kB]
Get:31 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libc-devtools amd64 2.35-0ubuntu3.1 [28.9 kB]
Ign:32 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 linux-libc-dev amd64 5.15.0-56.62
Get:33 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 libcrypt-dev amd64 1:4.4.27-1 [112 kB]
Get:34 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 rpcsvc-proto amd64 1.4.2-0ubuntu6 [68.5 kB]
Err:32 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 linux-libc-dev amd64 5.15.0-56.62
404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.36 80]
Get:35 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libtirpc-dev amd64 1.3.2-2ubuntu0.1 [192 kB]
Get:36 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 libnsl-dev amd64 1.3.0-2build2 [71.3 kB]
Get:37 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy-updates/main amd64 libc6-dev amd64 2.35-0ubuntu3.1 [2099 kB]
Get:38 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/main amd64 manpages-dev all 5.10-1ubuntu1 [2309 kB]
Fetched 47.6 MB in 10s (4797 kB/s)
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/linux-libc-dev_5.15.0-56.62_amd64.deb 404 Not Found [IP: 185.125.190.36 80]
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

Attempts to compile with gcc results in the same error message.

What am I doing wrong?

I appreciate your effort to assist me.

Thanks

Larry
Anna Xiu-MSFT 31,056 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2023-03-01T08:31:52.33+00:00

Hello Larry, if you have feedback on WSL or anything regarding the Linux support in Visual Studio, please directly report it in Visual Studio Developer Community.

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