Visual Studio 2022 Preview 2 adds C++ build and debugging in WSL2 distributions

Amid the puffery over Windows 365, Microsoft also released the second preview of Visual Studio 2022 with some intriguing features for Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 users. Visual Studio 2022, now finally available in 64-bit flavour, also added a range of additional languages in the update and new Live Preview experiences for …

[bazza]

Bye bye Eclipse

It's been pretty easy to use Visual Studio / Code in this sort of way for some time now. Eclipse CDT is pretty horrid in comparison these days. MS making it even smoother is pretty much terminal so far as I'm concerned.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Bye bye Eclipse

One must not forget there is also JetBrains Rider.

[Dan 55]

Re: Bye bye Eclipse

What is it using to cross-compile the code...? Because if it's not gcc or clang I wouldn't want to be part of that experiment.

[picturethis]

M$

"While this remains in preview, it is yet another demonstration of Microsoft's determination to embrace a cross-platform world"

Sure, as long as:

- you purchase a Windows OS license from MS

- you purchase a Visual Studio license from MS

or better yet, purchase a Visual Studio subscription.

EEE (embrace, extend, extinguish)

[Anonymous Coward]

Fancy a spot of weekend tinkering?

No.

[Anonymous Coward]

Windows *finally* got an SSH server on Windows some years back. All of this stuff can work great through that, cmake, cdb, cl, nmake, etc and native developers have worked like this for decades.

It seems sad that Visual Studio users are always stunted by being tied to a fairly slow moving IDE. These all-in-one IDEs are such a legacy from the DOS days before multi-tasking existed.

How do they use cross compilers, remote testing and all that if Visual Studio doesn't support it? Or do they just sit back and leave it to someone else to do the work?

[Anonymous Coward]

Forced to use Win10 for WFH :(

Instead of WSL, dual boot Linux - solves a host of dependencies, also saves $$$

[hellsbells]

Sill does not play nicely with other toolchains.