Installing WSL, Ubuntu Bash, GCC, G++ on Windows 10

First of all, install Windows Subsystem for LInux on Windows Features. Reboot.

Go to aka.ms/wslstore and install Ubuntu.

Run bash and create a user account with a password.

Make a “sudo apt update” to update the repo packages.

Then you can do “sudo apt install gcc” and “sudo apt install g++”.

You can copy your files from your Windows system to WSL using /mnt/<drive>. Take acre of converting files to UTF8 from VS using notepad++ or iconv.

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