Project Configuration for VS Code on Windows/Linux

[PythooonUser]

Summary

This is a quick summary of my current working setup of the Delver engine using VS Code on Windows.

Main caveats:

• Setting up the Java extension
• Using the correct working directory when using the debugger
• Graddle version 6.6.1 works

Steps

1. Install the VS Code Java Extension Pack
2. Download the JDK
3. Add the installation to PATH
4. There are actually a bunch of files generated by the extension (add to .gitignore?)
5. Adjust the launch config for the debugger to use the correct working directory

   {
     "type": "java",
     "name": "Debug (Launch)-EditorStarter<DelvEdit>",
     "request": "launch",
     "mainClass": "com.interrupt.dungeoneer.EditorStarter",
     "projectName": "DelvEdit",
     "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/Dungeoneer/assets" <--- THIS HERE
   }

6. Press F5 and enjoy DelvEdit

Android

For developing on Android, install an appropriate SDK via Android Studio. Enable USB Debugging on your device and add the following launch config to VS Code.

{
      "type": "node-terminal",
      "name": "Android - DELVER",
      "request": "launch",
      "command": "gradle DungeoneerAndroid:installDebug DungeoneerAndroid:run"
}

[NetherNarwhal]

Thank you for putting this together. It definitely gave me a place to start. For Linux, this is kind of a hack but I did something similar:

• Install the VS Code Java Extension Pack
• Install openjdk-8-jdk via apt or whatever package manager you use
  • I had openjdk-11-jdk installed already, which won't work due to an LWJGL2 issue. You can either uninstall OpenJDK 11 and install OpenJDK 8, replace with another OpenJDK implementation, or leverage the Java 8 runtime packaged with Delver. I opted for the latter to avoid messing with other apps that may need Java 11. I didn't think it would work since it is just the JRE, not JDK, but it seems to. To do that I added the following in VSC's setting.json:

    "java.configuration.runtimes": [
    { "name": "JavaSE-1.8", "path": "/home/<insert your id here>/.steam/steam/steamapps/common/Delver/jre-linux/linux64/" },
    { "name": "JavaSE-11", "path": "/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/" }
    ],

  • Note that ~\.steam... didn't work for the path. Had to spell out what ~ was. Delver may be installed elsewhere depending upon how you set up Steam, OS, computer, etc. For the OpenJDK 11 version, I did whereis java and then followed the symlinks to get the path above. Your path may be different if not using apt or your OS, computer, etc.
• I did NOT set PATH and it didn't seem to be needed, likely due to specifying the runtimes above.
• Added .project, .settings/, */.classpath, */.project, */.settings/ (comma separators won't work, needs to be separate lines) to .git/info/exclude so Git would ignore them, however the org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs files in the subprojects needed to have their Java versions updated from 1.6 to 1.8 as VSC seems to use them. Those will show up as modified regardless of the exclude since they are already in the repo.
• Updated/Created the .vscode/launch.json file to include the cwd item as you had above for all 3 entries it created for me: Current File, DelvEdit and DungeoneerDesktop. I noticed that if I just added to the DelvEdit one then running it by right-clicking on DelvEdit in the Java Project section of Explorer worked, but the app would crash when hitting F5 inside a file (it was using the current file entry for that).