I installed WSL2 and use Visual Studio (VS) 2022 on the windows. I want to configure my VS 2022, so I can develop Python projects in WLS2. All tutorials I find online only talks about visual studio code. I don't want to install another IDE. Does anybody know how to do that or point me to some material?
Unfortunately not at this time, no. The VSCode integration with WSL is done through the use of an extension that creates an interop server between Windows VSCode and the Linux side of WSL. There isn't an extension like that for Visual Studio, however.
The only WSL integration that I'm aware of in Visual Studio 2022 is the inclusion of a WSL toolchain that allows you to target WSL/Linux in C++ projects. But nothing that I'm aware of for Python, no.
I believe you'll need to install an additional IDE to get Python/WSL support, sorry.
Not sure if VS is available for Linux or WSL2 yet.
If you look at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/, only Windows & Mac seem to be supported.
So you have 2 main options:
Use VS on Windows itself. Then you just need to install the Python Tools for Visual Studio (PTVS) to be able to support Python development
Use VS Code on WSL2 - it's pretty lightweight to install anyway as a code editor, but can be endowed with comparable features to VS
EDIT: It may be that I'm misunderstanding the question as pointed out below by NotTheDr01ds, and instead you want to target WSL2 from the VS IDE, developing Python.
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I am currently using Pycharm. What I like about PyCharm are the following:
Simplicity of creating virtualenvs
Intellisense
GUI package installer
Console (automatically activates the venv)
However, I also lacked the following
intellisense for javascript (I believe they require a paid
license)
I recently tried visual studio but it lacked
GUI package installer
Is there an ide that can give me all the aforementioned features? I need to use this ide for full stack development in Python
I have read that there is version of python in visual studio 2017.
I have read that it contains Django.... since, I think a good debugger, and IDE like visual studio would be great for web development... I wonder if it is possible.. to develop python & Django using Visual Studio 2017?
Pycharm is the best IDE for python development I think. You can try it. hope helpful.
While this isn't a direct programming question, it's something that has been bothering me for quite some time. And keeps annoying me to no end, and I expect others also have this problem.
On windows quite a few libraries require you to use a precompiled version (numpy, pyqt, mod_wsgi). Now these precompiled versions require often you to have installed the correct C-compiler, the one used for python 3.4 is VC10. This compiler corresponds with visual studio 2010.
Now some (mod_wsgi as explained here) use further build steps to finalize the library. To do this one should "open the VS 2010 command prompt". Which is included in (free) VS 2010 express.
However googling and further links lead to microsoft' site for visual studio. But there only 2015 (or 2013) is available.
So how to finalize the build process (ie the last steps for mod_wsgi) on windows? Can I use VS 2015 command prompt without breaking things? I doubt I can?
Are we basically stuck until python updates to a newer version of visual studio?
I'm aware that Python extensions on Windows typically have to be built with the same version of Visual Studio used to compile Python itself, and I'm further aware that Python 2.7 through 3.1 are built using Visual Studio 2008. But the machine I'm on already has VS 2013 installed, and, as I've discovered countless times, one way to rapidly mess up your Windows development environments is to install Visual Studio in any order than from oldest to newest. Besides which, install VS2008 on a brand-new Windows 8.1 box seems silly. Python extensions are the only thing I have that needs 2008; if I can avoid installing it, I'd really prefer not to.
Can I avoid installing VS 2008 and still build against the official Python distributions, perhaps by installing a specific Platform SDK? If not, is there an alternative build of Python that might go with e.g. MinGW, or something that does not require I install VS 2008?
I can suggest a few possible solutions to your problem. From potentially the easiest, to probably the hardest:
Just use Visual Studio 2013 to compile your extension modules. For this to work your extension module mustn't access any C runtime objects created by the Python interpreter, nor may it pass any C runtime objects it creates to the interpreter. In particular you can't use any FILE * or file descriptor objects provided by Python. You can still read and write to files in your module, just not files that Python has opened.
Uninstall Visual Studio 2013, install Visual Studio 2008, reinstall Visual Studio 2013. As silly as this sounds it's probably going to be a quicker and lot less frustrating than either of the following solutions. This will let you build extension modules pretty much normally and you won't have to worry about what C runtime objects you use.
Use mingw32 and employ various hacks to get it to work. This page explains how one person got it to work: https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg09473.html
Copy the appropriate msvcrt*.lib file from VS 2008 installed on another machine. Manually edit your linker options to use this library instead of VS 2013's msvcrt*.lib of the same name. If that doesn't work, copy the include files and other libraries as well, and modify your compiler and linker options to use them instead. If that still doesn't work, copy the VS 2008 command line compiler and all of its dependent DLLs, set the PATH correctly, and then modify your build process to use that compiler instead.
Firstly, I should state that my current development environment is MSYS + mingw-w64 + ActivePython under Windows 7 and that on a normal day I am primarily a Linux developer. I am having no joy obtaining, or compiling, a version of the Python library with debug symbols.
I need both 32bit and 64bit debug versions of the Python27.dll file, ideally. I want to be able to embed Python and implement Python extensions in C++, and be able to call upon a seamless debugging facility using the gdb-7.4 I have built for mingw-w64, and WingIDE for the pure Python side of things.
Building Python 2.7.3 from source with my mingw-w64 toolchain is proving too problematic -- and before anyone flames me for trying: I acknowledge that this environment is unsupported, but I thought I might be able to get this working with a few judicious patches (hacks) and:
make OPT='-g -DMS_WIN32 -DWIN32 -DNDEBUG -D_WINDOWS -DUSE_DL_EXPORT'
I was wrong... I gave up at posixmodule.c since the impact of my changes became uncertain; ymmv.
I have tried building with Visual C++ 2010 Express but being primarily a Linux developer the culture-shock is too much for me to bear today; the Python project does not even import successfully. Apparently, I need Visual C++ 2008, yet I am already convinced I don't want to go down this road if at all possible...
It's really surprising to me that there is not a zip-file providing the requisite .dlls somewhere on the Internet. ActiveState should really provide these as an optional download with each release of ActivePython that they make -- perhaps that's where the paid support comes in ;-).
What is the best way to obtain the Python debug library files given my environment?
I've just built CPython 2.7.5 in debug mode with Visual Studio 2012 Express (free).
I documented the process via wiki page: https://wiki.python.org/moin/VS2012
The best way to create a debug version of Python under Windows is to use the Debug build in the Visual Studio projects that come with the Python source, using the compiler version needed for the specific Python release, i.e. VS 2008.
There may be other ways, but this is certainly the best way.
If you really need a 64-bit debug build also, the best way is to buy a copy of VS 2008 (i.e. not use the Express version). It may be possible to create an AMD64 debug build using the SDK 64-bit compiler, but again, using the officially-supported procedures is the best way.
The libs can be aquired from the official Python site https://www.python.org/ftp/python/. Just navigate to the specific version you like and then download the respective installer.
For installation you can call the installers like this :
your_installer.msi targetdir="the_path_to_your_directory_of_choice"
or simply Run them as Administrator.
You may also use the Python installer to download the debug symbols as well(use the webinstall version).