Setting Up VSCode for Coding in C on Windows (C Coding Video #1)
This videos leads you through the installation of everything you need to have to code in C in VSCode on Windows. It uses Cygwin for the gnu C tools and builds hello world to show how to create a basic pair launch.json and tasks.json files to test the installation.
The contents of launch.json is:
{
// Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
// Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
{
"name": "gcc.exe build and debug active file",
"type": "cppdbg",
"request": "launch",
"program": "${fileDirname}\\${fileBasenameNoExtension}.exe",
"args": [],
"stopAtEntry": false,
"cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
"environment": [
{
"name": "PATH",
"value": "%PATH%;C:\\cygwin64\\bin"
}
],
"externalConsole": true,
"MIMode": "gdb",
"miDebuggerPath": "C:\\cygwin64\\bin\\gdb.exe",
"setupCommands": [
{
"description": "Enable pretty-printing for gdb",
"text": "-enable-pretty-printing",
"ignoreFailures": true
}
],
"logging": { "engineLogging": true }, //optional
"preLaunchTask": "gcc.exe build active file"
}
]
}
And the contents of tasks.json is:
{
"tasks": [
{
"type": "shell",
"label": "gcc.exe build active file",
"command": "C:\\cygwin64\\bin\\gcc.exe",
"args": [
"-g",
"${file}",
"-o",
"${fileDirname}\\${fileBasenameNoExtension}.exe"
],
"options": {
"cwd": "C:\\cygwin64\\bin"
},
"problemMatcher": [
"$gcc"
],
"group": {
"kind": "build",
"isDefault": true
},
"detail": "Task generated by Debugger."
}
],
"version": "2.0.0"
}