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CMake integration in Visual Studio Code
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Documentation issues #1276

Open hackf5 opened 4 years ago

hackf5 commented 4 years ago

Summary

The launch.json fails to work for two reasons:

  1. It expects 'miDebuggerPath' to be supplied even if gdb.exe is on the path.
  2. The PATH environment variable is set incorrectly and this ends up blatting the variable entirely causing the debugger fails to launch.

Also in the quickstart guide you might want to suggest new users use MYSYS2 instead of Mingw-w64 as C++17 is completely broken in Mingw-w64 (https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/bugs/737/) and rarely updated, whereas MYSYS2 is actively maintained.

Platform and Versions

Fixes

Modify launch.json:

"environment": [
                {
                    "name": "PATH",
                    "value": "${env:PATH};${command:cmake.launchTargetDirectory}"
                }
            ],
"miDebuggerPath": "Path to gdb"
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