Can't do courses from Windows

[a21stCenturyPeon]

Path: /cli/installation
also /cli/usage

A WSL image can't see the host machine, and any IDE you install in the host Windows can't see inside the WSL image, so if you're doing the work from an IDE in Windows, you can't use the codecrafters command, or any of the pipe commands in the course instructions.

[rohitpaulk]

@a21stCenturyPeon could you try this? https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/wsl

Will see how we can improve the docs here.

[a21stCenturyPeon]

Thanks for the quick reply.

I had some joy with doing almost everything except code editing from within the WSL image:
(I'm doing the grep course)

1. After installing WSL, open a session: wsl --install Ubuntu
2. From the Ubuntu prompt, run udo apt-get update then run sudo apt-get install -y dotnet-sdk-8.0
3. Still in the Ubuntu prompt, Go to the folder where you want to clone the project repo into, and follow the project steps.
4. Back in Windows, open Visual Studio Code and install the WSL extension, and open the project folder that's in the image (as detailed in your link)
5. In VS Code, do your edits.

Running the command-line execution commands from either the terminal window, or a WSL terminal window inside VS Code, gives a successful build, but that's the end of my success so far.