Visual Studio Code includePath

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I m trying to build C C   in Visual Studio Code  I installed C C   and all the relevant extensions    include  lt stdio h gt  int main         printf  Test C now n        return 0      But there s a green line under  include  lt stdio h gt  saying  Add include path to settings   When I click it  it moves over to  c cpp properties json    How and where can I add include paths in the configurations below    configurations                    name    Mac            includePath      usr include

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This answer maybe late but I just happened to fix the issue. Here is my c_cpp_properties.json file:

{
"configurations": [
    {
        "name": "Linux",
        "includePath": [
            "${workspaceFolder}/**",                
            "/usr/include/c++/5.4.0/",
            "usr/local/include/",
            "usr/include/"
        ],
        "defines": [],
        "compilerPath": "/usr/bin/gcc",
        "cStandard": "c11",
        "cppStandard": "c++14",
        "intelliSenseMode": "clang-x64"
    }
],
"version": 4

}

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For Mac users who only have Command Line Tools instead of Xcode  check the  Library Developer CommandLineTools directory  for example     quot configurations quot           quot name quot    quot Mac quot        quot includePath quot                  quot  usr local include quot                  others  e g    quot  usr local opt ncurses include quot                quot  Library Developer CommandLineTools SDKs MacOSX sdk usr include quot                quot   workspaceFolder     quot            You probably need to adjust the path if you have different version of Command Line Tools installed   Note  You can also open generate the c cpp properties json file via the C Cpp  Edit Configurations command from the Command Palette    P

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My c cpp properties json config-        quot configurations quot                            quot name quot    quot Win32 quot                quot compilerPath quot    quot C  MinGW bin g   exe quot                quot includePath quot                      quot C  MinGW lib gcc mingw32 9 2 0 include c   quot                              quot defines quot                      quot  DEBUG quot                    quot UNICODE quot                    quot  UNICODE quot                              quot cStandard quot    quot c17 quot                quot cppStandard quot    quot c  17 quot                quot intelliSenseMode quot    quot windows-gcc-x64 quot                       quot version quot   4

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I solved this issue by uninstalling Visual Studio that I had installed recently

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In your user settings add    C Cpp default includePath    path1   path2

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The best way to configure the standard headers for your project is by setting the compilerPath property to the configurations in your c cpp properties json file   It is not recommended to add system include paths to the includePath property   Another option if you prefer not to use c cpp properties json is to set the C Cpp default compilerPath setting

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A more current take on the situation  During 2018  the C   extension added another option to the configuration compilerPath of the c cpp properties json file   compilerPath  optional  The absolute path to the compiler you use to build your project  The extension will query the compiler to determine the system include paths and default defines to use for IntelliSense   If used  the includePath would not be needed since the IntelliSense will use the compiler to figure out the system include paths   Originally   How and where can I add include paths in the configurations below   The list is a string array  hence adding an include path would look something like   quot configurations quot                    quot name quot    quot Mac quot            quot includePath quot     quot  usr local include quot                quot  path to additional includes quot                quot  Applications Xcode app Contents Developer Platforms MacOSX platform Developer SDKs MacOSX10 11 sdk usr include quot                     Source  cpptools blog 31 March 2016  The linked source has a gif showing the format for the Win32 configuration  but the same applies to the others  The above sample includes the SDK  OSX 10 11  path if Xcode is installed  Note I find it can take a while to update once the include path has been changed  The cpptools extension can be found here  Further documentation  from Microsoft  on the C   language support in VSCode can be found here   For the sake of preservation  from the discussion   the following are basic snippets for the contents of the tasks json file to compile and execute either a C   file  or a C file  They allow for spaces in the file name  requires escaping the additional quotes in the json using   quot    The shell is used as the runner  thus allowing the compilation  clang     and the execution   amp  amp    a out  of the program  It also assumes that the tasks json  quot lives quot  in the local workspace  under the directory  vscode   Further task json details  such as supported variables etc  can be found here  For C            quot version quot    quot 0 1 0 quot         quot isShellCommand quot   true        quot taskName quot    quot GenericBuild quot         quot showOutput quot    quot always quot         quot command quot    quot sh quot         quot suppressTaskName quot   false        quot args quot     quot -c quot    quot clang   -std c  14 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -pthread   quot   file   quot   amp  amp    a out quot      For C          quot version quot    quot 0 1 0 quot         quot isShellCommand quot   true        quot taskName quot    quot GenericBuild quot         quot showOutput quot    quot always quot         quot command quot    quot sh quot         quot suppressTaskName quot   false        quot args quot     quot -c quot    quot clang -std c11 -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -pthread   quot   file   quot   amp  amp    a out quot      command arguments

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For everybody that falls off google  in here  this is the fix for VSCode 1 40  2019    Open the global settings json  File   Preferences   Settings    Then select the tab  User   open the section  Extensions   click on  C C     Then scroll the right panel till you find a  Edit in settings json  button     Last  you add the  C Cpp default includePath  section  The code provided there is from my own system  Windows 7   You can use it as a base for your own libraries paths   Remember to change the YOUR USERNAME to your correct system  my case windows  username    edit info  There is a problem with the recursion of my approach  VSCode doesn t like multiple definitions for the same thing  I solved it with  C Cpp intelliSenseEngine    Tag Parser       the code before line 7  on the settings json has nothing to do with arduino or includePath  You may not copy that     JSON section to add to settings json    C Cpp default includePath              C  Program Files  x86  Arduino libraries               C  Program Files  x86  Arduino hardware arduino avr cores arduino               C  Program Files  x86  Arduino hardware tools avr avr include               C  Program Files  x86  Arduino hardware tools avr lib gcc avr 5 4 0 include               C  Program Files  x86  Arduino hardware arduino avr variants standard               C  Users  lt YOUR USERNAME gt   platformio packages framework-arduinoavr               C  Users  lt YOUR USERNAME gt  Documents Arduino libraries                 workspaceFolder  libraries                 workspaceFolder              C Cpp intelliSenseEngine    Tag Parser

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I tried this and now working  Configuration for c cpp properties json     quot configurations quot                    quot name quot    quot Win32 quot            quot compilerPath quot    quot C  MinGW bin g   exe quot            quot includePath quot                  quot C  MinGW lib gcc mingw32 9 2 0 include c   quot                      quot defines quot                  quot  DEBUG quot                quot UNICODE quot                quot  UNICODE quot                      quot cStandard quot    quot c17 quot            quot cppStandard quot    quot c  17 quot            quot intelliSenseMode quot    quot windows-gcc-x64 quot            quot version quot   4       task json configuration File     quot version quot    quot 2 0 0 quot    quot tasks quot                    quot type quot    quot cppbuild quot            quot label quot    quot C C    g   exe build active file quot            quot command quot    quot C   MinGW  bin  g   exe quot            quot args quot                  quot -g quot                quot   file  quot                quot -o quot                quot   fileDirname     fileBasenameNoExtension  exe quot                      quot options quot                  quot cwd quot    quot C   MinGW  bin quot                      quot problemMatcher quot                  quot  gcc quot                      quot group quot                  quot kind quot    quot build quot                quot isDefault quot   true                     quot detail quot    quot compiler  C   MinGW  bin  g   exe quot

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