How does one set up the Visual Studio Code compiler debugger to GCC

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I am programming in C in Visual Studio Code  but I can t compile  as VSC only offers three compilers built in - Node js  C  Mono  and Extension development  After a little bit of digging I came across the Visual Studio Marketplace  This seemed like the right sort of thing  but only four uncommon languages were there    I can only assume that C debugging support is built in  I just can t find it or I am going the wrong way about doing it  I attempted to create a new launch json  the manifest that seems to hold the compiling debugging settings for each file  and manually entering the GCC binaries that I have  but that didn t end up working  I m currently stuck manually compiling the C source file I am working on through command prompt   Would really help if someone could point me in the right direction on what to do   tl dr - Help from anyone debugging C in Visual Studio Code  Windows 8  if that matters  Cheers

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Just wanted to add that if you want to debug stuff  you should compile with debug information before you debug  otherwise the debugger won t work  So  in g   you need to do g   -g source cpp  The -g flag means that the compiler will insert debugging information into your executable  so that you can run gdb on it

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Ctrl P and Type  ext install cpptools  it will install everything you need to debug c and c     Debugging in VS code is very complete  but if  you just need to compile and run  https   code visualstudio com docs languages cpp  Look in the debugging section and it will explain everything

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There is a much easier way to compile and run C code using GCC  no configuration needed    Install the Code Runner Extension Open your C code file in Text Editor  then use shortcut Ctrl Alt N  or press F1 and then select type Run Code  or right click the Text Editor and then click Run Code in context menu  the code will be compiled and run  and the output will be shown in the Output Window    Moreover you could update the config in settings json using different C compilers as you want  the default config for C is as below    code-runner executorMap          c    gcc  fullFileName  amp  amp    a out

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For Windows    Install MinGW or Dev C   Open Environment Variables In System Variable select Path -  Edit -  New Copy this C  Program Files  x86  Dev-Cpp MinGW64 bin to the New window    If you have MinGW installed copy its  bin path   To check if you have added it successfully  Open CMD -  Type  gcc  and it should return  gcc  fatal error  no input files compilation terminated   Install C C   for Visual Studio Code  amp  amp  C C   Compile Run    Code Runner If you installed only C C   Compile Run extension you can compile your program using F6 F7 If you installed the second extension you can compile your program using the button in the top bar    Screenshot  Hello World compiled in VS Code

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EDIT  As of  March 2016  Microsoft offers a C C   extension for Visual Studio Code and therefor the answer I originally gave is no longer valid      Visual Studio Code doesn t support C C   very well  As such it doesn t  naturally support gcc or gdb within the Visual Studio Code application    The most it will do is syntax highlighting  the advanced features like  intellisense aren t supported with C  You can still compile and debug code  that you wrote in VSC  but you ll need to do that outside the program itself

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Caution  A friendly reminder  The following tutorial is for Linux user instead of Windows  Tutorial  If you want to debug your c   code with GDB  You can read this   Debugging your code   article from Visual Studio Code official website   Step 1  Compilation  You need to set up task json for compilation of your cpp file  or simply type in the following command in the command window  g   -g file cpp -o file exe   to generate a debuggable  exe file  Step 2  Set up the launch json file  To enable debugging  you will need to generate a launch json file  follow the launch json example or google others  Step 3  Press  Ctrl F5  to start compiling  this launch json file will launch the configuration when you press the shortcut  Ctrl F5   Enjoy it   ps  For those who want to set up tasks json  you can read this from vscode official  -  TypeScript Hello World

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You need to install C compiler  C C   extension  configure launch json and tasks json to be able to debug C code     This article would guide you how to do it  https   medium com  jerrygoyal run-debug-intellisense-c-c-in-vscode-within-5-minutes-3ed956e059d6

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