Eclipse with Windows Subsystem for Linux

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Prateek Sharma

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May 31, 2019, 3:05:38 AM5/31/19

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Hello everyone,

I installed dealii on a windows subsystem for Linux (WSL) using Debian (as instructed in the dealii github page). I also installed Eclipse on my Windows system. Through mounting the workspace on the debian system, I was also able to cmake my project and then import it in the eclipse workspace.

The 'make targets' that are embedded in eclipse try to find the 'make' command in /usr/bin/.., but since it doesn't know where the linux file system is, it throws an error.

I can connect a terminal via SSH in eclipse to run my program, but then I could do that through any terminal. I would like to use the features of eclipse such as autocomplete, renaming variables, going directly to the error line via double clicking the error message, etc. For that I need to configure eclipse in such a way that it knows where deal libraries are and where my linux file system is.

Installing eclipse in the linux file system directly is an option, but that has the limitations of the graphic server that I am running (Xming) such as problematic resolution of the window.