OK, let’s save the latest version of tasks. Here is a version you can copy and paste.

You don’t have to but if you plan to edit some C++ code in VS Code I would recommend installing the C/C++ for Visual Studio Code extension.

If, for any good or bad reason, you don’t want to install Visual Studio but only the minimum set of tools you can install the Build Tools for Visual Studio 19 for example. To bring up the Debug view, click the Run icon ( Ctrl+Shift+D ) in the Activity Bar and create a launch.json file and select the option C/C++: (gdb) from the.

I mean you can compile some C++ project with Visual Studio 2017.

Visual Studio 2017 (15.6.2) is installed and at least the C++ load is up and running.Youll then see a dropdown for various predefined debugging configurations. OK, let’s start with the software settings: To create launch.json, choose Add Debug Configuration from the play button drop-down menu. Fundamentally the steps explained here should be similar if you use another compiler.

Click the create a launch.json file link. Visual Studio Code supports variable substitution in Debugging and Task configuration files as well as some select settings. As you will see the compiler and the linker, I will use are the ones coming with Visual Studio 2017.

Open the Debug view on Windows or Linux by pressing Ctrl+Shift+D.

At this time, I use VSCode 1.55.2 and cl version 3īonjour, this is a step-by-step procedure which explains how to compile C++ code with VS Code (aka Visual Studio Code). Note: I updated the article in April 2021.

Visual studio code c++ launch.json