• Paul (12/12) Sep 25 2020 Hi Community,
• Imperatorn (4/16) Sep 25 2020 The code-d extension is awesome. Use it. About building and
• Aldo (32/44) Sep 25 2020 In VSCode the best way to work is by using dub directly. You

Paul <phshaffer gmail.com> writes:

Hi Community,

I'm Win10: I have VSCode installed.  I have DMD installed and can 
compile examples from a Win CMD console.

1) How do I compile and run from within VSCode?
2) VSCode Extensions:
       Do I need them?
       One kept generating errors and a note said it was not under 
active development so I
          uninstalled it.
       The remaining two are by WebFreak.  Are they working?  Do I 
need them?

Thanks for your time.

Imperatorn <johan_forsberg_86 hotmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 25 September 2020 at 13:38:56 UTC, Paul wrote:
 Hi Community,

 I'm Win10: I have VSCode installed.  I have DMD installed and 
 can compile examples from a Win CMD console.

 1) How do I compile and run from within VSCode?
 2) VSCode Extensions:
       Do I need them?
       One kept generating errors and a note said it was not 
 under active development so I
          uninstalled it.
       The remaining two are by WebFreak.  Are they working?  Do 
 I need them?

 Thanks for your time.

The code-d extension is awesome. Use it. About building and 
running, there should be an associated code-D tasks. Otherwise, 
just type dub. Did you create your project using dub init?

Aldo <aldocd4 outlook.com> writes:

On Friday, 25 September 2020 at 13:38:56 UTC, Paul wrote:
 Hi Community,

 I'm Win10: I have VSCode installed.  I have DMD installed and 
 can compile examples from a Win CMD console.

 1) How do I compile and run from within VSCode?
 2) VSCode Extensions:
       Do I need them?
       One kept generating errors and a note said it was not 
 under active development so I
          uninstalled it.
       The remaining two are by WebFreak.  Are they working?  Do 
 I need them?

 Thanks for your time.

In VSCode the best way to work is by using dub directly. You 
should have a terminal on the bottom, just type dub it will 
compile & run your app. Or if you want you can use the vscode 
build system, create a new task in your project (Ctrl+Shift+B) 
and add the following task for example:

{
         "label": "Compile and run",
         "type": "shell",
         "command":"dub",
         "group": {
           "kind": "build",
           "isDefault": true
         }
  }



For debugging (on windows), I use the "C/C++" extension and the 
F5 key. It will create a launch.json file in 
"C:/projectPath/.vscode/launch.json". You just need to add 
something like that in this file:

         {
             "name": "(Windows) Debug",
             "type": "cppvsdbg",
             "request": "launch",
             "program": "${workspaceFolder}/yourexecutable.exe",
             "args": [],
             "stopAtEntry": false,
             "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
             "environment": [],
             "externalConsole": false
        }

Don't forget to enable breakpoints everywhere in your VSCode 
settings (Allow Breakpoints Everywhere checkbox).