Using Docker Container and WSLg for OpenGL Development

A repo of files to compile and run OpenGL program inside WSL 2 using WSLg.

Setup Instructions

Prerequisite

Windows 11

Setup instructions

Install WSLg - see instruction on https://github.com/microsoft/wslg#installing-wslg
Install Docker Desktop with WSL 2 backend enabled: see this documentation from Docker.
Run your Linux Distro (Ubuntu by default) from Start Menu. This gives access to WSL bash. Set username and password if you haven't already.
If you haven't already, install git with the following command in Ubuntu:
```
sudo apt install git
```
Clone this repository with the following command in Ubuntu:
```
git clone https://github.com/syoon2/docker-wslg-opengl-dev
```
Move to the cloned repository with following command:
```
cd docker-wslg-opengl-dev
```
Run run.sh. It will take some time for Docker to set up everything you need.

Using the setup

I personally recommend using VS Code with this setup.

Install Remote Development Extensions on VS Code.
Install Docker extension on VS Code.
Click the newly added Docker button on sidebar. Here you will see list of Docker containers, images, etc. set up on your system.
Right click on the gpu_docker_wslg container we've set up earlier. Click Attach Visual Studio Code.
And you are done! You can basically use it like your local system.

Note that this container stores files in its own file system and you may want to move files into / out of the container. For this, use docker cp command. There are other ways to do so, but I am lazy to go through them.

Note on Windows 10