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== Remote WSL ==

Similar to SSH hosts, both <code>nix-vscode-server</code> and <code>nix-ld</code> solution allows a VSCode Windows client to connect a [https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL NixOS-WSL] host. However, by default the VSCode Windows client uses <code>wsl.exe --exec</code> to start the code server, which bypasses NixOS environment variables required by <code>nix-ld</code>, resulting in failures. ~~As a workaround, add the following settings for the VSCode Windows client:~~

Similar to SSH hosts, both <code>nix-vscode-server</code> and <code>nix-ld</code> solution allows a VSCode Windows client to connect a [https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL NixOS-WSL] host. However, by default the VSCode Windows client uses <code>wsl.exe --exec</code> to start the code server, which bypasses NixOS environment variables required by <code>nix-ld</code>, resulting in failures.

~~{{file|%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Code\User\settings.json|json|<nowiki>~~

{

~~"remote.WSL2.connectionMethod": "localhost"~~

}

As a workaround, search for the following text in all files under the directory <code>$HOME\.vscode\extension\</code>

{{file|wslDaemon.js|js|<nowiki>

[e,"-e",`const net = require('net');

</nowiki>}}

Replace it with

{{file|wslDaemon.js|js|<nowiki>

["sh","-l","-c","exec \"$0\" \"$@\"",e,"-e",`const net = require('net');

</nowiki>}}

Then restart VS Code and your VS Code client should be able to connect to NixOS host

See https://github.com/nix-community/NixOS-WSL/issues/222 for the discussion about <code>wsl --exec</code> issue on NixOS-WSL.

See https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-remote-release/issues/8305#issuecomment-1661396267 about the workaround.

== Using nix-shell ==