Visual Studio Code

Install

• Add the repo

curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg
sudo mv microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list'

• Update as usual

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install code # released monthly
# or code-insiders (released daily)
# use [apt search visualst]

• Debug > Install additional debuggers... > C++
• Install the top two CMake packages (one for project mgmt, one for cmake file editing)

Intellisense

Use CMake to generate json that includes the project headers, then import that into vscode settings, for a DRY way to set up header paths.

• Add this to CMakeList.txt to generate compile_commands.json:

# MDM This creates compile_commands.json, which can be imported by vscode to set include paths from here, w00t DRY
set(CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS ON)

• Edit your project settings (eg...)

/home/m/development/thedigitalage/AbetterTrader/server/.vscode/c_cpp_properties.json

• Add a compileCommands directive:

{
   "configurations": [
       {
           "name": "Linux",
           "includePath": [
               "${workspaceFolder}/**"
           ],
           "defines": [],
           "compilerPath": "/usr/bin/clang",
           "cStandard": "c11",
           "cppStandard": "c++17",
           "intelliSenseMode": "clang-x64",
           "configurationProvider": "vector-of-bool.cmake-tools",
           "compileCommands": "${workspaceFolder}/cmake-debug/compile_commands.json"
       }
   ],
   "version": 4
}