Pycharm WSL Support on Windows ARM64
I have had great success with Pychrm and WSL-hosted anaconda venvs on my windows intel x64 laptop and workstation running Qiskit (and even the GPU version of the AER simulator).
I would like to be able to do similar things (less the GPU support, of course) on my ARM64 windows “tabtop??”, which seems to have enough juice to do a fair bit. I have WSL2 installed and configured, with an Ubuntu distro installed. Inside that, I have Anaconda and have created a venv to do configuration testing. I have also installed PyCharm Pro ARM64. But when I go to create or configure a new project, I do not see the WSL option for the Python runtime.
I am going to assume that WSL support is not yet available on Windows ARM.
Is my assumption correct and, if so, is there any kind of timetable for WSL support on ARM?
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Hi there
Thank you for raising this
We had an issue with WSL2 support for windows on ARM however this was fixed in 2024.3 and is available in the latest PyCharm version 2024.3.5
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IJPL-164725/Cannot-use-WSL2-with-Intellij-on-Windows-ARM
May I ask which PyCharm version are you using ?
if the issue is still persisting on the latest PyCharm version will you please send me:
Kind regards,
Thanks Ervis.
I had an idea and went ahead and created a generic Python project. I was then able to reconfigure it (in the settings) to use WSL.
So I think the only issue is a lack of conceptual symmetry between the creation process which does not present the WSL option, and the project settings after creation which does present the WSL option.
Not a biggie. All is working well here.
Thanks again.
Understood and glad this is now working as expected
Kind regards,