This extension generates debug and tasks configurations both on the fly and as tasks.json and launch.json files in order to compile using make and debug using lldb (requires the CodeLLDB extension).
It is designed for plain UNIX development environments (not cygwin) with make and lldb installed. The configuration setup VSCode, either :
to compile the program whose name is the basename of the currently selected file and execute it without arguments
or to compile the target provided by the user and execute it with the arguments given by the user
In the second form, a new launch configuration is created that enable the reexecution of the given target with the same arguments.
Features
provides both debug configurations and compilation tasks
generates launch.json and tasks.json
UNIX only, compile using make, debug using lldb
let the user create simply its own compilation/debug configurations
Run target
The extension let the user create interactively a new launch configuration by selection Run new target in the run menu.
Afterwards this new configuration becomes accessible through the same menu.
Release Notes
The latest release is still a prototype that has not yet been tested at scale. When adding a configuration to an existing launch.json file, tasks.json is not generated until the first execution : this is due to the way VSCode generates the new configuration (statically from a snippet). This extension removes comments from launch.json when it has to complete it, keeping comments would make the extension much more complex for a very small gain.
