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.

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.

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.

Linux users who want to run Windows applications without switching operating systems have been able to do so for years with Wine, software that lets apps designed for Windows run on Unix-like systems.