CMake.md

CMake integration & extension

Table of contents

• Overview
• Microsoft CMake Tools
• Support for writing CMake files

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Overview

Tools that support you managing and maintaining CMake projects with VS Code.

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Microsoft CMake Tools

To interact with CMake, the CMake Tools extension is there. It could be found here. Formerly it was maintained by vector-of-bool (thanks for that great extension!) and is now maintained by Microsoft.

Especially the the CMake Quickstart feature, usable with the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) running CMake: Quickstart, is pretty nice to starting coding right away.

For details on how to setup, configure and build projects, see https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/blob/develop/docs/README.md and https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/cmake-linux.

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Support for writing CMake files

For support of writing CMakeLists files, the CMake extension is pretty useful.