Set up a remote development environment with VS Code

VS Code is an integrated development environment.

A remote development environment will allow you to run code from comet.cs.brynmawr.edu, a remote server, from within VS Code.

For this option, your need to use VS Code with the Remote-SSH extension to VS Code.

Setting up your own local development environment

A local development environment allows you to write code on your own desktop or laptop. With a local development environment, you will be able to run your code even after you graduate from college.

Note
 All programs must run on the lab’s Linux environment. Make sure you test your work on the lab machines if you work on your laptop!

Windows

  1. Open PowerShell and install wsl2: wsl --install. See documentation. Note that you may need to open powershell as an administrator.

  2. From the windows store, install Ubuntu.

Once installed, you can setup your development environment from a bash shell.

  1. Open PowerShell

  2. Type wsl to start the windows subsystem for linux. This will give your a bash prompt

  3. Then install your development tools

    1. sudo apt-get install cmake

    2. sudo apt-get install git

    3. sudo apt-get install g++

    4. sudo apt-get install vim

    5. sudo apt-get install libc6-dev-i386

    6. sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib

    7. sudo apt-get install hexedit

    8. sudo apt-get install valgrind

    9. sudo apt-get install gdb

For example, you get something like the following

Windows PowerShell
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PS C:\Users\alinen> wsl
WSL alinen@Balthazar:~$ sudo apt-get install make

etc
Note
 A quick way to open powershell is to type <WindowsKey>-'Q' and type 'powershell'.

MacOS

From terminal, run command xcode-select --install

You can follow the instructions here

Then, to install additional dependencies, execute the following commands form terminal

$ brew install vim
$ brew install git
$ brew install cmake
Note
 A quick way to open terminal is to use spotlight. From the keyboard, type the <cmd> and <spacebar>. Then type terminal at the popup edit field.

Unfortunately, valgrind and gdb cannot be run natively on mac. However, you may try running leaks or lldb which are similar. However, we recommend you still test on goldengate or a lab machine.