Quote Originally Posted by S_M_A View Post
There's no Linux version of VS, you just install the cross platform tools. After the installation you will have both a VS compiler and gcc (and also clang if you select that). I haven't tried using a compiler installation outside VS yet but I think that will work just as well.
Hi S_M_A - can you offer any help here..?

I followed these instructions for installing WSL2 and Debian Linux - and I then ran the stated bash command - sudo apt install g++ gdb make rsync zip (and everything seemed to install)

But it hasn't made any difference when I launch VS2019. I'm following the section called Visual Studio MSBuild-based projects and WSL but after creating a new Console App it doesn't show any WSL stuff when I select Platform Toolset (I just see the regular Windows MSVC and Clang compilers that were already installed).

The only option for creating a Linux Console App here is to use .NET

Also - if I select Tools->Get Tools and Features it's not showing me gcc or g++ or WSL etc - only those regular compilers for Windows development.

Any idea what I might've done wrong...