Then, you can run the program with the command ./hello, which will print out Hello World! in your terminal. And that’s all there is to compiling C++ programs in Linux.

The Windows Subsystem for Linux is bridging the divide between Windows and Linux by letting you run Windows 10 programs directly within a Linux shell.

Your turn! Now that we have given you a start with programming PICs using Linux, we hope to see more projects using these chips and the tools we have mentioned above.

WineHQ is a free software that allows you to run Windows applications, games, software on Mac, Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris without installing a copy of Microsoft Windows.

For those times when you absolutely must still run Windows XP, one safer way of doing it is to run XP in a virtual machine using the Oracle VirtualBox hypervisor on Linux Mint.