notheotherben

Build and debug C in VSCode on Windows Subsystem for Linux

This set of launch.json and task.json files allow you to build and debug individual C files from within Windows while using the gcc collection installed within your WSL environment.

Steps

Ensure you have GCC+GDB installed in WSL

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y gcc gdb

mGalarnyk

# Go to home directory
cd ~

# You can change what anaconda version you want at 
# https://repo.continuum.io/archive/
wget https://repo.continuum.io/archive/Anaconda3-5.0.1-Linux-x86_64.sh
bash Anaconda3-5.0.1-Linux-x86_64.sh -b -p ~/anaconda
rm Anaconda3-5.0.1-Linux-x86_64.sh
echo 'export PATH="~/anaconda/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc 

jennybc

There are packages for this now!

2017-08-03: Since I wrote this in 2014, the universe, specifically Kirill Müller (https://github.com/krlmlr), has provided better solutions to this problem. I now recommend that you use one of these two packages:

• rprojroot: This is the main package with functions to help you express paths in a way that will "just work" when developing interactively in an RStudio Project and when you render your file.
• here: A lightweight wrapper around rprojroot that anticipates the most likely scenario: you want to write paths relative to the top-level directory, defined as an RStudio project or Git repo. TRY THIS FIRST.

I love these packages so much I wrote an ode to here.

I use these packages now instead of what I describe below. I'll leave this gist up for historical interest. 😆

unbracketed

Some fellow Tmux users I spoke with weren't using the Sessions feature, which I think is one of the coolest features of Tmux. No faulting the Tmux developers for very complete documentation, but it can take a few read-throughs for some of us before the core architecture becomes clear:

1. The Tmux Server is a collection of Sessions.
2. A Session is a collection of Windows.
3. A Window is a collection of Panes which visually subdivide it in the terminal.
4. Windows and Panes can be moved and shared between Windows, including Windows in other Sessions.

Having used a modern web browser, you already understand principles 1-3. You can open multiple browser windows (Tmux Session), each browser window has multiple tabs (Tmux Window), and each tab has a web page which probably contains multiple visual sections (Tmux Pane).