Building a discord bot in Windows using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

This Tutorial teaches you how to create a lightweight environment for D++-development using WSL and Visual Studio Code

Note

This Tutorial will use WSL's default Ubuntu! You might use other Distros if you prefer, but keep in mind the setup process might be different!

1. Make sure you have installed your WSL 2 environment properly using this guide to setup up WSL and this guide to connect to Visual Studio Code.
2. Now open PowerShell as an Admin and type wsl to start up your subsystem.

   Note

   If you want to set up a CMake project (recommended for production bots) now, consider continuing your path of becoming the master of all Discord bots here, otherwise keep following this guide!

3. Go to your home directory using cd ~
4. Download the latest build for your Distro using wget [url here]. In this guide we will use the v10.0.1 build for Ubuntu x86-64: wget https://github.com/brainboxdotcc/DPP/releases/download/v10.0.1/libdpp-10.0.1-linux-x64.deb

   Note

   replace the highlighted filenames with the package you downloaded earlier if you are using a different OS

5. Finally install all required deps and the library using sudo apt-get install libopus0 && sudo apt-get install -y libopus-dev && sudo apt-get install -y libsodium-dev && sudo dpkg -i libdpp-10.0.1-linux-x64.deb && rm libdpp-10.0.1-linux-x64.deb

Congratulations, you've successfully installed all dependencies! Now comes the real fun: Setting up the environment! For this tutorial we'll use a as small as possible setup, so you might create a more advanced one for production bots.

1. Navigate to a folder of your choice using cd your/path/here or create a new directory using mkdir MyBot && cd MyBot
2. Now that you've a folder to work in type > mybot.cxx to create a file you can work in!
3. Now you can open this file in Visual Studio Code by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+P and typing Remote-WSL: New WSL Window. This will bring up a new window. In the new window, choose open folder and choose the folder you've created prior. Press OK and now you have your Folder opened as a Workspace!
4. Add code to your CXX file and compile it by running g++ -std=c++17 *.cxx -o bot -ldpp in the same folder as your cxx file.
5. start your bot by typing ./bot!