Debugging Go code in Visual Studio Code WSL

Question

I have a Visual Studio Code environment with the Linux Subsystem for windows running and it's compiling and running a Go project just fine.

Now I'm trying to get the delve debugger running following this link:

But I can't get it running, neither remote nor local.

Tried all kind of configurations in launch.json but breakpoints just arent hit and no error message is printed.

Has anyone got go debugging running on VSCode using the WSL?

I don’t use vs code, but I would try https://medium.com/average-coder/how-to-debug-a-running-go-app-with-vscode-76e3eac45bd and https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-wsl — georgeok, Jul 04 '19 at 19:52
thanks, tried it for a few hours again but couldnt get it working yet. Not sure why but it seems to have something to do with VSCode messing up the cwd of the go program itself in WSL — Serve Laurijssen, Jul 05 '19 at 10:11
Hi, I am also facing similar issue. Not able to connect to Delve debugger. the debugger console shows API server listening at: 127.0.0.1:2345 but nothing after that. Were you able to debug with Goland ? — Nikhil Mittal, Jul 06 '19 at 20:40
No it's not working yet. Will try sometimes when I find the time — Serve Laurijssen, Jul 08 '19 at 05:58
@NikhilMittal, I have the same issue, did you guys find out what is going on, are we missing something? — kuskmen, Nov 07 '19 at 22:23

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 08 '19 at 07:12

Old post, but its not possible to get delve to work on WSL

There was a better resource that explains fully why it doesnt work, cant find it now

Apparently it has something to do with WSL not implementing Linux fully...but it will in WSL2!

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 16 '20 at 16:14

If you can switch to WSL2, microsoft/vscode-go issue 2505 confirms:

Since WSL2 is working with this, I think we can close the bug

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