WindowsSetupSheet.txt

1. Get WSL2 on Windows
2. Get a normal distro (Ubuntu or Debian work fine)

    // Plutus container running in docker

1. In your wsl shell, in your linux ~/src (for example) do:

    git clone https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus

2. Read the README file it will tell you how to get Nix
3. Install Nix

    curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

4. Configure nix by adding the file /etc/nix/nix.conf (relaunch your shell)

    sandbox = false
    use-sqlite-wal = false
    substituters        = https://hydra.iohk.io https://iohk.cachix.org https://cache.nixos.org/
    trusted-public-keys = hydra.iohk.io:f/Ea+s+dFdN+3Y/G+FDgSq+a5NEWhJGzdjvKNGv0/EQ= iohk.cachix.org-1:DpRUyj7h7V830dp/i6Nti+NEO2/nhblbov/8MW7Rqoo= cache.nixos.org-1:6NCHdD59X431o0gWypbMrAURkbJ16ZPMQFGspcDShjY=

5. Build Plutus with the Nix command line in the README file

   nix build -f default.nix plutus.haskell.packages.plutus-core.components.library

6. Install Docker for Windows (relaunch your shell)
7. Launch Docker and make sure it is WSL2 enabled (in the settings)
8. Launch the Docker container from WSL using the README command line

    docker load < $(nix-build default.nix -A devcontainer)

    // VSCode

References:
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/wsl#_advanced-opening-a-wsl-2-folder-in-a-container

1. Get VSCode for Windows
2. Get the Remote - Containers extension
3. Go back into WSL into your source directory (~/src , maybe)
4. git clone https://github.com/input-output-hk/plutus-starter
5. cd plutus-starter
6. code .       // <-- this will install VSCode Server on your linux, wait for it
                // somehow I had to shutdown my vpn for that to download, should
                // not take long at all. :)
7. VSCode will launch in Windows and ask to reopen in the Dev Container: yes.
8. Open the CLI you will get a nifty [nix]: CLI
9. 'cabal update' then 'cabal build' and watch it build the Haskell