HOW to ACCESS GCC installed on windows in wsl

Question

I installed gcc, gdb, g++ through msys2 on windows and recently I installed wsl with openSUSE. please tell me how to access msys gcc on opensuse or do i have install a separate gcc on openSUSE wsl.

Is it ok to do so or will cause any problem or will cause the system to crash or any other problem.

Answer 1

Hi abhi abhi,

Thank you for posting on the Q&A forum.

It's supported to run Windows executables from WSL and the Windows file systems are mounted under /mnt. Sorry I do not use msys2 but you can see if the gcc.exe can run normally from bash.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/filesystems

Best Regards,

Ian Xue

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