Installation

On Windows

• https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/config-mingw

• https://www.msys2.org/

• OS specific settings.json. Won’t work. VSCode still has no platform specific settings.

  • microsoft/vscode#5595 (live)

  • microsoft/vscode#17619

• microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools

$ pacman -S mingw64/mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake

• C/C++ for Visual Studio Code

  • Especially, install mingw-x64 compiler

• CMake download

• Get started with CMake Tools on Linux

• GTest (optional): https://medium.com/swlh/google-test-installation-guide-for-c-in-windows-for-visual-studio-code-2b2e66352456

On Linux

• Install Tools

  As root …

  # dnf install gcc-c++ cmake gtest
  

• C/C++ for Visual Studio Code

• Get started with CMake Tools on Linux