I want to copy files from an NTFS windows filesystem creating the same directories and moving all files to an EXT3 filesystem. Is there a way to do this using CLI safely and correctly? I can mount the NTFS filesystem available to Nautilus. Using Fedora 21 OS.
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I'm very confused with the whole WSL situation. Sometimes I feel like I get it but in reality, I don't. My main confusion is where does Ubuntu (I use Ubuntu 20.04) save files? And how do they intertwine with files I install with Windows Command Line? All installations I have done via Ubuntu have been a waste of time, I can't find packages or libraries I install for any programming language. If someone knows of a course or video that could help me understand, I would appreciate it if you share it as well.
The specific situation of this question is caused because I installed a package for C with Ubuntu (the cs50 one) but I can't get VS Code to recognize it. I tried adding /usr/local path to the c_cpp_properties.json but it doesn't find this path.
I go to this folder in the explorer and I don't find anything, as expected.
Thanks in advance.
The file ext4.vhdx is the complete filesystem for the Linux subsystem. However, you can't (or shouldn't) access it directly from Windows 10.
Instead (within the Linux subsystem) you can access your C: drive through mount point /mnt/c (E.g. ls -l /mnt/c/Users ), and that way copy files between the two file systems.
If you want to user Windows explorer (again within the Linux subsystem), use following command:
/mnt/c/Windows/explorer.exe .
Just found out. You can access the files directly from Windows 10. E.g:
dir \\wsl$\Ubuntu-20.04\home
I faced the same problem. I was trying to reach rootfs but couldn't and as you have shown, I was reaching a dead end at "ext4.vhdx". After looking at articles, I found the home directory is found within the Linux subsystem, and to reach there you can use the following path to Linux and go to Linux > Ubuntu > home > user/admin and you'll be in your home directory.
You can directly type \\\\wsl$ in the directory path and then you can see the below image to access the file directory of ubuntu.
File Directory
Then, You can navigate here to see all the files as same as rootfs.`
\Ubuntu-22.04\home\user-name
`
I had the same issue and this is how I figured it out:
first, open PowerShell and type: wsl -d Ubuntu
then, go to your file explorer and type: \\wsl$
this will open the Ubuntu folder and you can access all your files
I'm experimenting with developing C code for linux using VS2019.
I'm finding that whilst many Linux headers such as sys/types.h and sched.h are being found OK, others, such as sys/syscall.h and fcntl.h are not being found.
I can see that it has a local copy of many headers such as stdint.h in local linux platform directory...can I just cut and paste the missing ones from the target machine?
I rather suspect that if common headers such as unistd.h are missing there is a reason, and I don't want to mess things up!
From Microsoft's documentation:
By default, Visual Studio does not include any system-level include
files from the Linux computer. For example, items in the /usr/include
directory are not present in Visual Studio. For full IntelliSense
support, you will need to copy those files to some location on your
development computer and point Visual Studio to this location. One
option is to use scp (Secure Copy) to copy the files. On Windows 10,
you can use Bash on Windows to run scp. For previous versions of
Windows, you could use something like PSCP (PuTTY Secure Copy).
You can copy the files by using a command similar to the following:
scp -r linux_username#remote_host:/usr/include .
Of course, replace the linux_username and remote_host values above for
what's appropriate in your own environment.
Once the files are copied, use the VC++ Directories item in Project
properties to tell Visual Studio where to find the additional include
files that were just copied.
As the title suggests, if I paste a c file written somewhere else into the root directory of the Linux Subsystem, I can't compile it.
I did a test where I made two differently titled hello world programs: one in vi that I can get into from the bash interface, and one elsewhere. When I compiled the one made in vi, it worked fine. Trying to do so for the one made elsewhere (after pasting it into the root directory), however, resulted in this:
gcc: error: helloWorld2.c: Input/output error
gcc: fatal error: no input files
compilation terminated
Any help with this would be much appreciated.
Do not change Linux files using Windows apps and tools!
Assuming what you meant by "paste a C file written somewhere else into the root directory of the Linux subsystem" is that you pasted your file into %localappdata%\lxss, this is explicitly unsupported. Files natively created via Linux syscalls in this area have UNIX metadata, which files natively created with Windows tools don't have.
Use /mnt/c (and the like) to access your Windows files from Linux; don't try to modify Linux files from Windows.
Quoting from the Microsoft blog linked at the top of this answer (emphasis from the original):
Therefore, be sure to follow these two rules in order to avoid losing files, and/or corrupting your data:
DO store files in your Windows filesystem that you want to create/modify using Windows tools AND Linux tools
DO NOT create / modify Linux files from Windows apps, tools, scripts or consoles
You cannot copy (by default, who knows how Windows bash is set up!) files into the root directory! Your gcc error is say "no input files", so the copy has most likely failed. Copy the files to your home directory instead, for instance:
cp helloWorld2.c ~/
instead of:
cp helloWorld2.c /
I have an application that depends on some .dll files.
I know if I just make them in the same folder as the .exe file, it would work, but I don't want to leave 30 .dll files with my .exe file. Is there a way I can put them in a folder with my .exe file ?
Or even better, is it possible to compile them and link them with the .exe file to have a standalone file? And no I don't have the static version of these dynamic libraries.
(p.s. the application is written with c, compiled with gcc, mingw win64, and the .dll are from gtk3 libs)
Thank you for reading my question
You have a number of options.
A) get hold of the library files, .lib on windows and statically link with these libraries.
B) It is a bit of a hack but you can attach resources into a Windows executable. This is usually used for strings, icons, that sort of thing, but you could even attach in a binary file. But if you do this you would probably need to generate the dll binaries at program startup and save to eg same folder as your executable. So no point in doing this really, simply distribute in the same folder as your exe. What is the problem doing that? (lookup LoadResource, FindResource, MAKEINTRESOURCE, etc)
C) If you don't want to put the dlls is the same path as your exe you will need to store them in a folder in your system's path env variable. Eg you could copy them to C:\Windows - but due to security that will be harder. You could create your own dll_path and add this path to the env variable as part of the installation of your program.
D) One other variation on C) is that you copy to for example a subdirectory of you exe location, called eg dll_files. Then you use a startup script to launch your program like this:
#echo off
set PATH=%PATH%;<path to dll files>
myprogram.exe
Let's make is simple
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no idea how to create standalone installer guide for you
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How do I create a simple batch file which copies a file from one directory to program files\my folder?
If the OS is Windows 64-bit then I want to copy to C:\Program Files (x86)\My Folder or Windows 32-bit then C:\Program Files\My Folder.
Use %ProgramFiles%, and let the operating system figure out where the files need to go.
copy C:\MyFiles\*.* "%ProgramFiles%\My Folder\"