installing pico-sdk in wsl

Start wsl and create a directory that is accessible from windows, then change there:

cd /mnt/c/Users/<username>
mkdir pico-sdk
cd pico-sdk

Clone the master branch from the sdk repo and initialize die submodules:

git clone -b master https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-sdk.git
cd pico-sdk
git submodule update --init

Go back one directory and clone the examples repo:

cd ..
git clone -b master https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-examples.git

Update your apt repositories

sudo apt update

And install the tools:

sudo apt install gcc-arm-none-eabi libnewlib-arm-none-eabi build-essential libssl-dev tk python3-tk

My cmake installation was ok, but it may need to have cmake built from sources if cmake is too old!

Clone the pico-project generator from github

git clone -b master https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-project-generator.git

Move into project generator and create a project

cd ./pico-project-generator

Register the path to the pico-sdk

export PICO_SDK_PATH="/mnt/c/Users/juan/pico-sdk/pico-sdk"

run the project-generator with a GUI (this requires a running XServer for X11 fowrwarding)

running the GUI this is not stricktly necessary since you can use the command line version of the application

export DISPLAY=127.0.0.1:0
./pico_project --GUI

Or run from cli:

./pico-examples --usart --usb