VSCode with WSL - How to use Bash for the launch configurations?

Question

I use Visual Studio Code to develop a TypeScript Node application on Windows 10, with WSL enabled.

Thanks to other threads , I'm almost able to run a VSCode task with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows.

But now I try to do the same with a launch configuration . How can I make a launch configuration to use the node executable installed in WSL instead of the one installed on Windows?

If I run this command directly in the integrated terminal, with Bash, it works :

node src/start.js

But when I press " [F5] " and start a launch configuration that runs this same file, I get an error : " Error: %1 is not a valid Win32 application ". This is because the oracledb library is used and has been compiled in Bash, not in Windows.

How can I make a launch configuration use Bash to run Node?

UPDATE : I opened an issue about that on VSCode's GitHub page.

Answer 1

Not if sure you still need help.

• open bash outside of the vs code.

• then run the following command, to install node.

  sudo apt install nodejs-legacy

and you should be able to run node with bash in vs code.