You can hover over the question mark icon to learn more information about each pre-requisite check. In the installation dialog, it will automatically check the status of pre-requisites on your machine for the installation and populate additional information if anything needs pre-configuring.

Once you click one of these options, an installation dialog will pop up. If you don’t have a WSL machine already installed on your machine, an additional option will be available in your Target Machine dropdown to “Create Linux Environment.” Īdditionally, you can open the dialog by navigation at any time to Project > Install WSL for me. By default, it will install a WSL2 Linux VM with the Ubuntu distribution. When you open a CMake project that can target Linux, a n info bar will open for users to click and open a WSL installation process.

Download the latest preview version of Visual Studio and select the Linux and Embedded workload to give it a try! How do I start? Have you ever wanted to try using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to target Linux from your C++ project, but haven’t gone through the documentation or CLI installation process? Now, from Visual Studio with the Linux and Embedded Workload, Visual Studio makes it easier than ever to get to that one-click install of WSL.

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