{"id":2078,"date":"2016-10-25T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T19:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2016-10-25T12:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T19:00:43","slug":"using-windows-10-linux-subsystem-to-develop-linux-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/tutorials\/linux\/win10\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Windows 10 Linux Subsystem to develop Linux applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

This tutorial shows how to use the new Windows 10 Linux subsystem (lxss) to develop Linux applications from Visual Studio. The Linux subsystem allows running native Linux applications side-by-side with the Windows processes without installing a separate virtual machine. This improves performance and allows quickly testing out your Linux code without installing a separate operating system.<\/p>\n

Before you begin, install VisualGDB 5.2 or later.<\/p>\n

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  1. Ensure that you are using 64-bit Windows 10 version 1607 or later:\"00-build\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Enable the Developer mode via system settings:\"01-devmode\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Open the “Add\/Remove programs”, click “Turn windows features on or off” and enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux:\"02-lxss\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Once the subsystem is installed, open the bash shell from the Start menu and ensure that gcc is installed. If not, you can install it by running “sudo apt-get install gcc”:\"03-gcc\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Start Visual Studio and select File->New Project->VisualGDB->Linux Project Wizard:\"04-prjname\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. In this tutorial we will show how to create a basic new project with MSBuild. VisualGDB also supports creating projects with other build systems, importing existing projects and creating unit test projects:\"05-newproj\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. On the Computer Selection page select “Use the Windows 10 Linux Subsystem” and proceed with the default toolchain:\"06-subsys\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. When you press ‘Finish’, VisualGDB will check that the Linux Subsystem on your machine is usable and contains all necessary tools:\"07-test\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. When the project is created, build it via Build->Build Solution:\"08-build\"<\/a>VisualGDB will automatically convert the Windows project path to the \/mnt\/<drive>\/path<\/strong> form used by the Linux subsystem and will automatically configure IntelliSense to look into Linux include directories under %LOCALAPPDATA%\\lxss\\rootfs<\/strong>.<\/li>\n
  10. Set a breakpoint in main() and hit F5 to begin debugging. VisualGDB will display a warning that it could not set controlling terminal. This is normal and can be safely ignored:\"09-debug\"<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. You can use the VisualGDB Project Properties window to edit various project properties, add references to test frameworks or check advanced IntelliSense settings:\"10-settings\"<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This tutorial shows how to use the new Windows 10 Linux subsystem (lxss) to develop Linux applications from Visual Studio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2090,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}