Shengheng Yan

The workflow of C++

If you work with C++, don’t be overwhelmed, there will be a lot of configurations.

C/C++ for Visual Studio Code

First of all, choose the compiler from Windows(MSVC, MinGW) Linus(GCC, LLVM) MacOS(LLVM)

Windows MSVC

I am so sick of configuring C++ for visual studio code on Windows.

  1. IMPORTANT Open vs code from Developer Command Prompt, using command line : 
    code .
  2. create a c++ hello world file
#include<iostream>
using namespace std;
int main(){
    cout << "hello world" << endl;
    return 0;
}
  1. run the file, and let the vscode create the configure file for you.

Don’t create the folder .vscode and configure files as the official tutorial suggested.

Simply just Press the play button in the top right corner of the editor. Choose C/C++: cl.exe build and debug active file from the list of detected compilers on your system. run-play-button.png