# Newbie Question: AudioAppComponent variables not getting passed to inherited class **URL:** \ **Category:** Getting Started\ **Created:** [August 12, 2024, 10:11pm UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/newbie-question-audioappcomponent-variables-not-getting-passed-to-inherited-class/62474 "2024-08-12T22:11:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![AdamVenn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/forum.juce.com/adamvenn/32/17023_2.png) [@AdamVenn](https://forum.juce.com/u/AdamVenn)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://forum.juce.com/t/newbie-question-audioappcomponent-variables-not-getting-passed-to-inherited-class/62474/10 "2024-08-14T01:44:16Z")
Unless you’re passionate about figuring out build systems, I would recommend getting going with one of the 3 main desktop environments Projucer will give you. As mentioned, Visual Studio on Windows works smoothly with Projucer. For Linux, you can use the generated makefile with Visual Studio Code, but I would be calling make rather than gcc directly. There are tasks/launch json examples in the forum: > [@How to set up VSCodium to compile and debug JUCE projects using makefiles written by projucer (Debian GNU+Linux)](https://forum.juce.com/t/how-to-set-up-vscodium-to-compile-and-debug-juce-projects-using-makefiles-written-by-projucer-debian-gnu-linux/54505): > > Hello everybody: I hope you are all in good health. I am quite a beginner with JUCE and not so much with C++. That being said, I bring this setup I wrote for people who are trying to use VS Codium on GNU+Linux (in my case, Debian) and want to build projects using the makefile written by Projucer. I hope this post is not found redundant. It is not, as far as I could search. First of all, we use the Projucer to generate the corresponding auxiliary folders and files inside the project folder. Th… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.juce.com/t/newbie-question-audioappcomponent-variables-not-getting-passed-to-inherited-class/62474)._