Setup the Build Environment on Windows 11

1. Install WSL2

• Enable “Inter Virtualization Technology” inside BIOS settings.
  • Depends on your PC, there is different ways to enter the BIOS settings.
  • Please find your own way by using ChatGPT, or any related sources.
• Make sure all those were enabled (inside Turn Windows features on or off, can be search on Start tab)
  • Virtual Machine Platform
  • Windows Hypervisor Platform
  • Windows Subsystem for Linux

• Open PowerShell in Administrator mode by right-click and select “Run as administrator”.
• Enter the command:

wsl --install

• WSL2 will be installed automatically by default on new Linux installations

• Set up the Linux user info

  • Username
  • Password

• Good practices during setup

  • Check ubuntu version

  lsb_release -a
  

  • Update and upgrade packages

  sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
  

  • File Storage

  explorer.exe .
  

2) Install ArduPilot development environment

• Install git command line

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt-get install gitk git-gui

• Clone ArduPilot repository

git clone <https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot.git>

• Install some required packages

  • Use provided script

  cd ardupilot
  Tools/environment_install/install-prereqs-ubuntu.sh -y
  

• Reload the path (log-out and log-in to make it permanent)

. ~/.profile