pipeTransport program can't be found when debugging with vscode and wsl - visual-studio-code

Question

I tried compiling and debugging c++ programs in vscode with wsl, compiling succeeded, but when I tried to press F5 to debug, the error is that the pipe program failed to start. Here is my launch.json.
{
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
{
"name": "(gdb) Launch",
"type": "cppdbg",
"request": "launch",
"program": "/home/maxu/projects/helloworld/helloworld.out",
"args": [""],
"stopAtEntry": true,
"cwd": "/home/maxu/projects/helloworld/",
"environment": [],
"externalConsole": true,
"windows": {
"MIMode": "gdb",
"miDebuggerPath": "/usr/bin/gdb",
"setupCommands": [
{
"description": "Enable pretty-printing for gdb",
"text": "-enable-pretty-printing",
"ignoreFailures": true
}
]
},
"pipeTransport": {
"pipeCwd": "",
"pipeProgram": "c:\\windows\\sysnative\\bash.exe",
"pipeArgs": ["-c"],
"debuggerPath": "/usr/bin/gdb"
},
"sourceFileMap": {
"/mnt/c": "${env:systemdrive}/",
"/usr": "C:\\Users\\maxu1\\AppData\\Local\\Packages\\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\\LocalState\\rootfs\\usr"
}
}
]
}
here is the error message
error message
I tried to modify the parameter "pipeProgram" to "c:\windows\system32\bash.exe", but also failed.

Answer 1

I have a similar problem as yours except that my pipe program is ssh.exe under c:\windows\system32\openssh.
Here is how I work through it: copy openssh folder to c:\ and add that path to my user path environment variable. You can have a try.
I don't know if the windows system folders are accessible from vscode.