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Install perf on WSL 2
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install-linux-perf-on-wsl2.sh
apt install flex bison
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/WSL2-Linux-Kernel --depth 1
cd WSL2-Linux-Kernel/tools/perf
make -j8
sudo cp perf /usr/local/bin
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rchriste commented Dec 8, 2025 •
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Note then when I tried this I got an error message about warnings that were treated as errors so it wouldn't build. To work around the issue I did the following to build make -j$(nproc) WERROR=0

Also note that I had to install a lot more packages that what is listed above. The following is the full list of what I installed
sudo apt install -y build-essential flex bison pkg-config libssl-dev libelf-dev libdw-dev libunwind-dev libaudit-dev libbabeltrace-ctf-dev libtraceevent-dev libnuma-dev libpfm4-dev libslang2-dev systemtap-sdt-dev libdebuginfod-dev python3 python3-dev libpython3-dev libperl-dev openjdk-17-jdk

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Stan1slavssKy commented May 11, 2026

Note then when I tried this I got an error message about warnings that were treated as errors so it wouldn't build. To work around the issue I did the following to build make -j$(nproc) WERROR=0

Also note that I had to install a lot more packages that what is listed above. The following is the full list of what I installed sudo apt install -y build-essential flex bison pkg-config libssl-dev libelf-dev libdw-dev libunwind-dev libaudit-dev libbabeltrace-ctf-dev libtraceevent-dev libnuma-dev libpfm4-dev libslang2-dev systemtap-sdt-dev libdebuginfod-dev python3 python3-dev libpython3-dev libperl-dev openjdk-17-jdk

Thank you, the build was completed successfully only after installing all the packages you mentioned.

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