Command substitution in configuration settings?

[harakka]

In a project we ship .vscode/settings.json like this:

    "makefile.configurations": [
        {
            "name" : "Linux - X64 - Tiles/Sound - Release",
            "makeArgs": [
                "-j4",
                "CLANG=1",
                "CCACHE=1",
                "NATIVE=linux64", 
                "RELEASE=1", 
                "TILES=1", 
                "SOUND=1"
            ]
        },
...

I would like to be able to do this or some equivalent:

            "makeArgs": [
                "-j$(nproc)",

Is there a way to accomplish this currently without having to modify the project Makefile?

[gcampbell-msft]

@harakka No, not currently. As of now, we don't implement any macro expansion that supports nproc when we parse the user defined makefile configuration.

If you're interested, please let us know and we can mark this as a feature request and we can let the community upvote it to indicate interest. Thanks!

[harakka]

Yes, I would be interested to see this as a feature.