illegal characters in path

[Zedonboy]

my windows build number = Creators Update

I want to debug linux application with WSL in visual studio

after following all tutorial video verbatim, none showed this error/ it meant to compile my hello world

Exception occured
while copying
sources to remote
machine-illegal characters
in path

[therealkenc]

Is your project location c:\connect and the project name ConsoleApplication2 per the video?

[edit] Named it "Hello World", didntcha.

[benhillis]

@Zedonboy - Could you please fill out our issue template? We do not have enough information to reproduce this issue.

[therealkenc]

@benhillis The repro is create a project name with a space in it, in Visual Studio. That error message comes is in the MSVS output view. As dogfood, whoever maintains WSL's init could use MSVS for Linux, change the project name to wsl init (with resulting space in the executable), and you'll get the fail.

[benhillis]

@therealkenc - Ok, so this isn't a WSL issue than but a Visual Studio issue.

[therealkenc]

Full disclosure I couldn't 100% confirm the behaviour on Real Linux because I upgraded my VM to Zesty, which doesn't appear to be supported for gdb reasons. But yes it sounds like the MSVC guys are just missing some quoting in their ssh command(s). Either way, ConsoleApplication2 works with WSL per the video.

[Zedonboy]

Well i have solved it........................
first i change "~/project" to "project" at the project environmental variables at the Remote directory
Previously i used Echo_Server as the name of my app....i guess thats a wrong naming convention.
i removed the hyphen it becomes "EchoServer"
Thank you @benhillis @therealkenc. am grateful for your concern. :()

[therealkenc]

Might be worth posting over in the Visual Studio Feedback Center, if you feel like it. They do appear to act on the feedback there. Echo_Server is of course a perfectly valid name.

[Zedonboy]

actually if you change the environmental variable only, another error will be generated
cannot create directories mkdir exit code 1
soo thats why i removed the hyphen from the name