


We recommend this mode of WSL development, where all your source code files, in addition to the compiler, are hosted on the Linux distro.

Visual Studio Code has support for working directly in WSL with the WSL extension. Note: Much of this tutorial is applicable to working with C++ and VS Code directly on a Linux machine. WSL is a Linux environment within Windows that runs directly on the machine hardware, not in a virtual machine. GCC stands for GNU Compiler Collection GDB is the GNU debugger. In this tutorial, you will configure Visual Studio Code to use the GCC C++ compiler (g++) and GDB debugger on Ubuntu in the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
