How to prepare/configure development environment for C++ projects in Visual Code Editor?

Question

I\'m working with JavaScript projects using nodejs and visual code editor. I wonder is it possible to configure such a great code editor for C++ projects.

I want to link

Answer 1

Use the following in the tasks.json file, changing "helloworld" strings as appropriate.

// Available variables which can be used inside of strings.
// ${workspaceRoot}: the root folder of the team
// ${file}: the current opened file
// ${fileBasename}: the current opened file's basename
// ${fileDirname}: the current opened file's dirname
// ${fileExtname}: the current opened file's extension
// ${cwd}: the current working directory of the spawned process

{
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "command": "gcc",
    "args": ["-Wall", "helloWorld.c", "-o", "helloWorld"],
    "problemMatcher": {
        "owner": "cpp",
        "fileLocation": ["relative", "${workspaceRoot}"],
        "pattern": {
            "regexp": "^(.*):(\\d+):(\\d+):\\s+(warning|error):\\s+(.*)$",
            "file": 1,
            "line": 2,
            "column": 3,
            "severity": 4,
            "message": 5
        }
    }
}

EDIT: This requires gcc to be available on the path. The build can be triggered with Ctrl + shift + b. Debugger is not available yet AFAIK