# Kakoune with Ubuntu WSL (windows platform) to use clangd with kak-lsp **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Tags:** windows, lsp\ **Created:** [April 19, 2019, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468 "2019-04-19T09:18:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/lauccode/32/52_2.png) [@lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/lauccode)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 9:18am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/1 "2019-04-19T09:18:17Z")
I guess kakoune under WSL can be a good solution if we would like to use it under Windows. **Kakoune version has been installed with the git clone** $ kak -version Kakoune v2019.01.20-203-g06d4ee57 **WSL Ubuntu version is** $ lsb\_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic **Clangd version installed with apt-get is** $ clangd --version clangd version 7.0.0-3~ubuntu0.18.04.1 (tags/RELEASE\_700/final) **kak-lsp can be launch** $ kak-lsp Apr 19 10:50:19.208 INFO Starting main event loop, module: kak\_lsp::session:31 Apr 19 10:50:19.209 INFO Starting editor transport on 127.0.0.1:31337, module: kak\_lsp::editor\_transport:106 **Debug buffer of kakoune** \*\*\* This is the debug buffer, where debug info will be written \*\*\* Dependency unmet: gocode, please install it to use go-tools Dependency unmet: goimports, please install it to use go-tools Dependency unmet: gogetdoc, please install it to use go-tools Dependency unmet: jq, please install it to use go-tools Config-change detected: and **kak-lsp.toml** has been modified and moved from .config/kak/plugins/kak-lsp/ to .config/kak-lsp/ But when I launch a “.cpp” with Kakoune, I don’t see kak-lsp activation. I should see the error code activation on the number line column. And other clangd functionnality. Other strange behaviour is that I can not see the kakoune command **:ranger**?? Maybe someone can help ? Regards ---
**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 9:58am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/2 "2019-04-19T09:58:44Z")
> [@lauccode](#): > > ``` > .config/kak/plugins/fzf.kak/kak-lsp/ > > ``` that’s strange location for `kak-lsp` > [@lauccode](#): > > Other strange behaviour is that I can not see the kakoune command **:ranger**?? [There’s no such command in Kakoune anymore](https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/commit/9ef37666eae8b6bd4c16483e839d9388ef853f13). > [@lauccode](#): > > But when I launch a “.cpp” with Kakoune, I don’t see kak-lsp activation. Perhaps you could provide your configuration files for us to examine. What `lsp-compatibilities` says? ---
**Author:** ![lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/lauccode/32/52_2.png) [@lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/lauccode)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/3 "2019-04-19T12:53:44Z")
**You are right, correction is has following (I corrected it in the subject too):** from .config/kak/plugins/kak-lsp/ to .config/kak-lsp/ Why ranger.kak has been removed ? This is useful feature to use it. Configuration file **kak-lsp.toml** is [language.c\_cpp] filetypes = [“c”, “cpp”] roots = [".cquery", “compile\_commands.json”] command = “clangd” There is no event (no more clippy help) when I do `lsp-mode` -\> `lsp-compatibilities` ---
**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/4 "2019-04-19T13:23:00Z")
clangd doesn’t use `.cquery` as root indicator ---
**Author:** ![lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/lauccode/32/52_2.png) [@lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/lauccode)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/5 "2019-04-19T13:27:10Z")
**I replaced with** > roots = [“compile\_commands.json”] But I have the same behaviour. ---
**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 1:53pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/6 "2019-04-19T13:53:24Z")
Proper config would be: ``` [language.c_cpp] filetypes = ["c", "cpp"] roots = ["compile_flags.txt", "compile_commands.json"] command = "clangd" ``` ---
**Author:** ![lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/lauccode/32/52_2.png) [@lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/lauccode)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 2:04pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/7 "2019-04-19T14:04:34Z")
I replaced roots line as you advice. This is not working too with same behavior. But I don’t yet provide compile\_flags.txt under the project. This was working well with original kak-lsp.toml under **Manjaro** and now under **openSuse** (to try because I changed SSD). That’s why I’m wondering what I could mess trying to use kakoune under WSL. ---
**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/8 "2019-04-19T14:06:50Z")
`compile_flags.txt` has the same syntax as `.cquery` except there’s no comments and empty lines ---
**Author:** ![lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/lauccode/32/52_2.png) [@lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/lauccode)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/9 "2019-04-19T14:13:16Z")
I put **compile\_flags.txt** with > %clang > %c -std=gnu11 > %cpp -std=gnu++14 -pthread > -I/work/cquery/third\_party > -I/work/cquery/another\_third\_party (no more improvement) ---
**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 2:55pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/10 "2019-04-19T14:55:11Z")
I don’t know how WSL actually structured, so I can’t really help with anything besides configurations of kak-lsp ---
**Author:** ![lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/lauccode/32/52_2.png) [@lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/lauccode)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/11 "2019-04-19T16:07:23Z")
Don’ t worry and thanks for your help. Maybe someone else will succeed to use it under WSL. We will have confirmation that kakoune is also available under Windows. ---
**Author:** ![ulis](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/ulis/32/620_2.png) [@ulis](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/ulis)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/12 "2019-04-19T23:32:20Z")
Hello! It might worth trying to run kak-lsp server manually with debug logging for better understanding of the problem. Try to do `kak-lsp -s mysession -vvv` in one terminal, and open file inside your cpp project with `kak -s mysession src/path/to/my/file.cpp` afterwards in another one. Debug output in the first terminal could have clues for goes wrong. ---
**Author:** ![lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/lauccode/32/52_2.png) [@lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/lauccode)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 9:16am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/13 "2019-04-22T09:16:09Z")
Hello Andreyorst, How do you proceed if there is no more ranger command to navigate in your project ? Regards ---
**Author:** ![andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/andreyorst/32/29_2.png) [@andreyorst](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/andreyorst)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 9:29am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/14 "2019-04-22T09:29:21Z")
I never used ranger actually. I use fzf.kak to search and open files in my projects. ---
**Author:** ![alexherbo2](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/alexherbo2/32/1140_2.png) [@alexherbo2](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/alexherbo2)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2019, 10:23am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/15 "2019-04-22T10:23:33Z")
@lauccode ranger has been removed because it was too specific. ---
**Author:** ![lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/lauccode/32/52_2.png) [@lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/lauccode)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 8:08am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/16 "2019-04-23T08:08:59Z")
> [@ulis](#): > > kak -s mysession Hello ulis, I tried but I got no more information. Opening kak does not do anything. > $ kak-lsp -s mysession -vvv > Apr 23 10:05:04.229 INFO Starting main event loop, module: kak\_lsp::session:31 ---
**Author:** ![lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/lauccode/32/52_2.png) [@lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/lauccode)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/17 "2019-04-23T08:39:03Z")
> [@alexherbo2](#): > > ranger has been removed because it was too specific. Maybe it could become a ranger plug-in ? I need to have a look on andreyorst “fzf-project” which seems to be a good candidate to navigate in project. ---
**Author:** ![alexherbo2](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/alexherbo2/32/1140_2.png) [@alexherbo2](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/alexherbo2)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/18 "2019-04-23T09:03:03Z")
You can use ranger with [Connect](https://github.com/alexherbo2/connect.kak). ```auto connect ranger ``` ---
**Author:** ![lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/lauccode/32/52_2.png) [@lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/lauccode)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2019, 10:25am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/19 "2019-04-23T10:25:14Z")
Thanks Decidedly kakoune is resourceful 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/user_avatar/discuss.kakoune.com/lauccode/32/52_2.png) [@lauccode](https://discuss.kakoune.com/u/lauccode)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2019, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468/20 "2019-04-24T10:28:39Z")
Hello ulis, Is there a way to check that **clangd** is responding ? Kak-lsp seems well set and is running. Kakoune also. But when I open a cpp file , I can not see the error bar added in the number line columns. It should work even with no files in the root project (compile\_flags.txt", “compile\_commands.json”). [Next page](https://discuss.kakoune.com/t/kakoune-with-ubuntu-wsl-windows-platform-to-use-clangd-with-kak-lsp/468.md?page=2)