Post-build / Pre-debug steps in build system

[ChristianWeyer]

What a lovely extension! Super well-done job.

Some times, I need to do some post-build or pre-debug steps. Like creating a .d64 with the compiled .prg and add another (external) .prg to the .d64. And then launch VICE with the .d64.

How would one approach this with VS64?

Thanks!

[rolandshacks]

Thanks for the nice feedback! Currently, there's no dedicated feature which supports custom actions - but vscode already comes with a quite capable task mechanism. Tasks can not just do the build, there is also a "pre-launch task" which is triggered before debugging, like this:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "vice",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Launch Vice",
            "preLaunchTask": "${defaultBuildTask}"
        }
    ]
}

In addition, I would recommend looking at the vscode docs: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/tasks

I am not totally sure, but maybe there's a real use case for a vs64 feature to add custom build (or post-build, or pre-build) steps, maybe some python scripts to be executed, etc...

Cheers! R.