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[John E]

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...

[John E]

Hi S_M_A - can you offer any help here..?

I followed these instructions for installing WSL2 and Debian Linux

Just a long shot S_M_A - but did you also happen to choose Debian or one of the others?

I'm starting to think Debian's created its file names and folder names using a non-Windows character set (most likely, UTF8)

[Edit...] or another possibility... I'm only using VS2019 Community Edition here. Maybe this WSL stuff requires one of the paid-for versions

[John E]

Does anyone know if there's an official forum somewhere for Visual Studio? I found the official Microsoft Community forum and it even looks like VS was once supported there - but all the VS threads are closed now. So I'm guessing it's either moved somewhere else - or maybe Microsoft simply doesn't support it any more...

[2kaud]

Have a look at https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home

[cheejhai]

Many thanks wolle - some great information there. Do you happen to know if VS Code supports C++? (I'm only asking because Visual Studio for Android and iOS apparently doesn't...)