How to avoid 'UNC paths are not supported' error when setting up VS Code for Motoko on Windows 10?

Question

I'm on Windows 10 and trying to set up VS Code to work with Motoko. I installed WSL and the extensions to connect remotely on VS Code, to do the hello-world sample project you can find here: https://internetcomputer.org/docs/current/samples/hello/ I am able to start the dfx server but when I go to dfx deploy I get this error:

Stderr:
'\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu\home\louis\ic-projects\hello2\hello'
CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory.
UNC paths are not supported.  Defaulting to Windows directory.

On the command line I tried mapping the path to a Z drive but it said that the network name cannot be found. So I'm trying to figure out how to run the project from a path that it will recognize. Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

I was able to resolve it, it looks like the problem was with node being installed on my Windows environment but not Linux and when I went to Ubuntu/mnt/c there was nothing in there in the way of files from my C drive for my app to access. So I installed node on Linux, then deleted the recent node_modules and ran npm install in the directory as per this thread Build nodejs Fail with exit status 126 - Permission denied, and installed and upgraded webpack-cli and then the app started working, which I found here: How to solve [webpack-cli] TypeError: cli.isMultipleCompiler is not a function