Configure Visual Studio Code for CMake with some options

Question

I want to use the CMake Tools extension for developing a CMake project in Visual Studio Code.

I build the project in the command line with following command:

Answer 1

The .vscode\.cmaketools.json file is only the "workspace cache" of Visual Studio Code - CMake Tools Extension. See their code:

/**
 * The workspace cache stores extension state that is convenient to remember
 * between executions. Things like the active variant or enabled environments
 * are stored here so that they may be recalled quickly upon extension
 * restart.
*/

I think what you want is a .vscode\settings.json as described here with e.g. the following content:

{
    "cmake.generator": "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64",
    "cmake.configureSettings": { "BOOST_ROOT": "some/path", "QT_ROOT": "another/path" }
}