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Windows Instructions

If you are using Windows, you have two main options to compile and run the assignments:

  1. Use Visual Studio (not Visual Studio Code)
  2. Use Microsoft WSL

Option 1 requires installing Visual Studio, which is big and free only for students. Option 2 requires installing Microsoft WSL, which is free and will allow running Linux natively on windows. This will allow you to follow the Unix instructions.

Option 1

Download and install Visual Studio. Run the cmake form a power shell as for Unix and this should generate a file .sln: a Visual Studio project. If the command fails, try to use the cmake gui.

Once you open the Visual Studio project, you should see in the solution explorer several project. Right click on the one you want to run and select Set as StartUp Project Finally you can press the play button to compile and run.

To pass commandline arguments, right click on the project and select properties. In the panel that opens select Debugging then fill the Command Arguments.

Option 2

Open a powershell with administrative privileges and type wsl --install (Microsoft Documentation). Wait for the process to finish and restart your machine. Upon restart, finish the linux installation by creating an username (all lowercase) and a password.

Open Visual Studio Code and install the Remote Development extension, if not present. Then click on the bottom left green corner with >< and select new Remote-WSL: New Window. This will connect Visual Studio Code to the Linux subsystem. Once is open, click open folder and navigate to your code. Note your windows files are under /mnt/c/Users/. Check the full documentation in case of problem.

Once you open the folder with the code, click on the Terminal menu and go to the linux terminal. There you need to install cmake

sudo apt install cmake

and g++

sudo apt install g++

From here you can follow the Unix instructions, that is

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug ..
./<executable>

If cmake fails because of Detecting CXX compiler ABI info try this:

  1. Create file wsl.conf in /etc/ with content:
[automount]
options = "metadata"
enabled = true
  1. Reboot your wsl
wsl.exe -t Ubuntu

To create the file, use

sudo nano /etc/wsl.conf

paste the content and type ctrl + x to close, on closing answer Y to save the file.

In case of other cmake failures, delete the file CMakeCache.txt inside the build folder (rm CMakeCache.txt) and rerun cmake.