Now that WSL 2 has been released from Windows 2004 update, NixOS can be run in Windows machine 🎉 Since NixOS differs from other Linux in some aspects, it has some difficulties working with Visual Studio Code Remote-WSL extension. This repository quickly fixes problems working with VSCode.
- Install NixOS as a WSL 2 distro. Currently there's a community supported repository here (NixOS-WSL).
- Install Visual Studio Code and its Remote-WSL extension.
- Make sure
wgetis installed in your NixOS as a system package. If you have no idea on this, runnix profile install nixpkgs#wgetcommand to installwget. - Run
cp ./server-env-setup ~/.vscode-server/server-env-setup. See here for description. - Now VSCode can connect to your NixOS!
Every time your vscode gets updated (including the very first run), the remote connection will fail. Just click 'retry' and reconnect.
This is a wontfix issue. See server-env-setup script for explanations.
Since NixOS-WSL includes flakes as default, non-flake is considered as legacy.
Please use non-flakes/server-env-setup file instead of server-env-setup.
Solution described in this post works by setting up server-env-setup file using home-manager. (This also requires nix-ld)