GitHub Actions with Windows Subsystem for Linux

August 25, 2025

The setup-wsl GitHub Action configures WSLv2 environment in Windows GitHub Actions runners. This allows testing certain quirks and corner cases one might encounter when running software on Windows Subsystem for Linux. For scientific computing Windows users, WSL is often the best way to run computational software on Windows, including software using performance code for GPU and MPI. An example WSL workflow that is more advanced illustrates how to use the wSL filesystem and that $GITHUB_ENV is not available, but env: parameters are.