CCCL OpenSource Contribution

08/03/2024:

Setup Dev Environment for CCCL:

I have been always wanted to work on the CCCL opensource library for a while, but the last time I tried it, I couldn’t setup the dev container for some reasons. It always told me I was missing something and the dev container connection did not work. I think part of the devcontainer.json didn’t work as expected on my machine, especially this part:

  "initializeCommand": [
    "/bin/bash",
    "-c",
    "mkdir -m 0755 -p ${localWorkspaceFolder}/.{aws,cache,config}"
  ],

I also had some issues with disk storage, as an image in a container takes a lot of space. I was able to fix this issue by running following commands from this post.

wsl --list -v #see the state of all containers
wsl --shutdown #shut down all the containers
wsl --export [IMAGE_NAME] "D:\path\to\the\folder\name.tar" # export the image (which is [NAME]) to a directory as .tar
wsl --unregister [IMAGE_NAME] # unregister
wsl --import [IMAGE_NAME] "D:\folder\you want the image to be\" "D:\path to the .tar" --version