Using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) from Sublime Text

Question

I wanted to use gcc, g++and makefor Sublime, to be able to compile c and C ++ codes for Linux executables on Winows. I could not start bash.exefrom Sublime, like many other users in stackoverflow.

Answer 1

• You need to copy the file C:\Windows\System32\bash.exeto a directory C:\Windows\SysWOW64\. Required due to the redirection of the WoW64 file system (Thanks Martin !)

• Then you need to create a new build system in Sublime Text with the following code. ( Tools -> Build System -> New Build System...)

  {
    "cmd" : ["bash", "-c", "gcc ${file_name} -o ${file_base_name} && ./${file_base_name}"],
    "shell": true,
    "working_dir": "${file_path}",
  }

  This code will compile the .c code and run it. The output will be shown in the Sublime Build Results panel.

• If you want to use this build system, select it in the list Tools -> Build System, and then click Ctrl + B.

You can charge the command that I put, the main thing is that you can run linux commands with bash -c "CommandsYouWantToRun"