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  • 1.  Using Microsoft VSC for development on RHEL ppc64le

    Posted Thu June 16, 2022 03:51 AM
    Hello,

    I'm interested in how people are using VSC for development on Power Linux.

    In an ideal world we would use the remote system extension, as I do on x86 Linux, but this is not available for ppc64le.

    I tend to use the SSH FS extension but that does have some limitations e.g. integration with VSCs source control

    Any thoughts or suggestions?

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    Glenn Robinson
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  • 2.  RE: Using Microsoft VSC for development on RHEL ppc64le

    Posted Mon June 20, 2022 09:57 PM
    Hey Glenn,

    Unfortunately as you noted, the remote extension isn't available on ppc64le, and seems to be one of the only VSCode components that isn't open source.  I'd think it's very unlikely that it wouldn't work if we had the code, Microsoft just doesn't support it and thus there's no public build.  There's a lot of support on this issue.

    Depending on what your project is, you could use cross compilers (either on your Linux host or through WSL if you're on Windows) to enable IDE-like features.  If you don't need IDE-like features and you just want source control integration, you can just use VSCode as an editor and push your changes to the Power system when it's time to build and test.

    You could also run VSCode on your Power server itself and access it over the network with code-server.  Haven't tried this one myself but I've heard of it being used.

    Truly open source editors like Emacs work fine on any architecture, I write C on Power with clangd code navigation and completion and inline errors etc remotely from my x86 laptop and it works "like native".

    Hope you find something that works for you.

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    Russell Currey
    Linux kernel hardening lead
    IBM Power Systems
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  • 3.  RE: Using Microsoft VSC for development on RHEL ppc64le

    Posted Mon February 26, 2024 01:23 PM

    Hello Russell
    Sorry but not completely clear to me your assumptions. How can we debug code that must run on IBM Power from a Windows machine running VSCode? Could you please explain again the alternatives in case answer to previous question is NO?

    how can I install VScode on Power?

    thank you 



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    Luca Pasquini
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  • 4.  RE: Using Microsoft VSC for development on RHEL ppc64le

    IBM Champion
    Posted Tue February 27, 2024 05:26 AM

    Hi Glenn,

    in an ideal world I don't use "Remote system extension" or sshfs. I commit my changes to the repo and the pipeline builds them for me. I get back the result of the build and if the build was successful, then results of the tests. As you can imagine I do it using VSCode on my Mac (most of the times). Sometimes using vim.

    In a not such ideal world I used already proposed code-server on Linux on Power and on IBM AIX (self built) if I need VSCode. But usually vi is enough in this case.



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    Andrey Klyachkin

    https://www.power-devops.com
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