We will tell VS Code how to debug our application when it is in Debug mode.This is this task which will generate the executable in Debug (and Release) version. We will write a VS Code task which will invoke NMake in order to process the generated Makefile.We will write a first VS Code task which will call CMake in order to process the CMakeLists.txt file and generate a Makefile specific to a Debug version of our application.We will create a CMakeLists.txt file (I will later explain what it is).Just to make sure we all know where we go here is how our journey will look like : Here, we are going to play another game and we will use CMake (and a CMakeLists.txt file) then call NMake from VS Code. Ok… Now the big question… How do we compile the code ? In another page I explained how to invoke the C++ compiler that comes with Visual Studio (cl). You don’t have to but if you plan to edit some C++ code in VS Code I would recommend to install the « C/C++ » extension for Visual Studio Code.VS Code (1.21.1) is also installed (otherwise this page makes no sense 🙂 ).Basically it includes everything needed (compiler, linker etc.) except the Visual Studio IDE itself. If you really don’t want to install Visual Studio Code 2017 (this is a mistake because the debugger is, by far, one of the best available) you could install the Visual Studio Build Tools (make sure to scroll down the page). I mean you are able to compile a C++ project with Visual Studio 2017. Visual Studio 2017 (15.6.2) is installed and the C++ « load » is up and running.
As for everything else, YouTube is your friend : here and there for example.įirst thing first, few words about is the settings : Yes, I will give some short explanations but this page is not a CMake tutorial. Oh, by the way… Before to read further, I realize you need to know (more or less) what is CMake, Make (or NMake) and a Makefile. However the steps explained here should be similar if you use another compiler. As you will see the compiler and the linker I will use are the ones coming with Visual Studio 2017.
This is a step by step procedure which explains how to compile C++ code using CMake and VS Code (aka Visual Studio Code).
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