[SOLVED] CMake, VSCode and debugging?

CMake
1

I like using VSCode to do my coding as it feels less overwhelming than with IDEs like Visual Studio or XCode. As a beginner, perhaps I shouldn’t, but still… Either way, I’ve set up my launch.json and tasks.json as follows:

launch.json:

  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "(lldb) Launch",
      "type": "cppdbg",
      "request": "launch",
      // "program": "/Applications/AudioPluginHost.app",
      "program": "${workspaceFolder}/build/SimpleEQ_artefacts/Standalone/SimpleEQ.app",
      "args": [],
      "stopAtEntry": false,
      "cwd": "${fileDirname}",
      "environment": [],
      "externalConsole": false,
      "MIMode": "lldb",
      "preLaunchTask": "build"
    }
  ]

and tasks.json

  "version": "2.0.0",
  "tasks": [
    {
      "label": "build",
      "type": "shell",
      "command": "make",
      "group": {
        "kind": "build",
        "isDefault": true
      },
      "options": {
        "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/build/"
      }
      
    }
  ]

I can’t seem however to be able to print stuff to console, either with std::cout or using the DBG macro. As for the CMakeLists.txt file, I’m simply using a slightly modified version of the AudioPlugin example at github.
I know I have to be missing something, but I’m not sure where to start looking, any help will be appreciated!

2

Have you installed the C/C++ Extension Pack? I’ve found that after installing that pack, with the CMake extension I can easily debug a JUCE project using a launch.json file similar to the one provided here: Target Debugging and Launching — CMake Tools 1.4.0 documentation

That being said, I haven’t used vscode to debug a plugin so there may a missing step to get that working as expected… what host are you using?

3

I do have the C/C++ Extension Pack installed. I had the CMake Tools extension disabled though, I remember finding it rather cumbersome for reasons I no longer remember, but I should probably give that a try again, thanks for the link!

4

I struggled to get it to play nicely to start with too, but starting from scratch and following the various guides online I managed to get it working fairly well.

5

I realized I originally copy-pasted the tasks.json file twice, I’ve edited to show the launch.json file now too. Also answering your question, I’m using the standalone version and JUCE’s AudioPluginHost.

6

My launch.json looks like this FWIW… I don’t have a tasks.json:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "(lldb) Launch",
            "type": "cppdbg",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${command:cmake.launchTargetPath}",
            "args": [],
            "stopAtEntry": false,
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "environment": [
                {
                    "name": "PATH",
                    "value": "$PATH:${command:cmake.launchTargetDirectory}"
                }
            ],
            "MIMode": "lldb",
            "logging": {
                "moduleLoad": false
            }
        }
    ]
}
7

I fixed it! All I had to do was add set(CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE Debug) in CMakeLists.txt (which of course would need to be set to Release when the time came), and then adjust the path in launch.json to

"program": "${workspaceFolder}/build/SimpleEQ_artefacts/Debug/Standalone/SimpleEQ.app"