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### For Windows

We use the [OCaml for Windows](https://fdopen.github.io/opam-repository-mingw/)
installer which comes in 32bit and 64bit versions. This installer gives you
opam and OCaml installations all in one go. It is used from within a Cygwin
environment, but the executables produced have no dependency on Cygwin at all.
OCaml on Windows is still a work in progress. In the meantime, if you only
need to *run* OCaml programs on a Windows machine, then the simplest solution is to use the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2). WSL2 is a feature that allows Linux programs to run directly on Windows. WSL2 is substantially easier and faster to use than WSL1. Microsoft has comprehensive installation steps for [setting up WSL2](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10).

On the other hand, if you need Windows binaries, you will have to use the [OCaml for Windows](https://fdopen.github.io/opam-repository-mingw/) installer which comes in 32bit and 64bit versions. This installer gives you Opam and OCaml installations all in one go. It's used from within a Cygwin environment, but the executables produced have no dependency on Cygwin at all. For a more comprehensive update on the state of OCaml on Windows, see the [OCaml on Windows](/platform/ocaml_on_windows.html) page on the old version of the site.

## The OCaml top level

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![Visual Studio Code](/media/tutorials/vscode.png "")

**On Windows using WSL2**, you will remotely connect to your WSL2 instance from Visual Studio Code. Microsoft has a [useful blog post](https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2019/09/03/wsl2) covering getting WSL2 and Visual Studio Code connected.

**On Windows**, we must launch Visual Studio Code from within the Cygwin window,
rather than by clicking on its icon (otherwise, the language server will not be
found):
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