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Installing WPILib

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HarryXChen edited this page Feb 21, 2024 · 2 revisions

Installation

In order to use the WPILib suite of tools, including the provided WPILib VSCode editor, you will need to install the latest WPILib release. Installation is fairly trivial, and the documentation on the process is well written.

Refer to the WPILib Documentation on how to install the latest version. Alternatively, you can also get the .iso file directly from the GitHub releases page here.

Make sure you unmount the mounted .iso file that you used to install WPILib after you are done! You can safely delete the file once installation is complete.

Pitfalls

  1. You cannot use an existing VSCode installation, installing WPILib will install a new copy of VSCode called 2024 WPILib VSCode leaving existing VSCode installations untouched - instead of launching an existing VSCode installation, you need to launch the WPILib specific one.
  2. When running the WPILib installer, you cannot have any running JVM processes, make sure to terminate all JVM processes (this includes JVM based IDEs such as Intellij!)
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