Fixing VS Code/Code.exe: Exec format error in WSL
· 2 min read
From time to time, we run into issues that seem trivial but can be quite frustrating, when VS Code doesn't open from WSL, it can be one of those issues and it happens after a Windows update or a VS Code update. Here's how to fix it.
I recently ran into an issue where I couldn't open Visual Studio Code from WSL. I would get the following error:
$ code .
/c/Users/adria/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/bin/code: 61: /c/Users/adria/AppData/Local/Programs/Microsoft VS Code/Code.exe: Exec format error
Read on to learn how to fix this issue.
