Hi CPP team,
thank you so much for your effort. I have issue with the tools, I already installed everything you guys asked, and I still cannot configure out the right json files. Can you tell me what I need to do to make the debugger run in the Code?

What I did is I just create a .cpp file, then I click the debugger icon, but it keeps asking me to configure the launch.json. I have no idea how to do it. Normally I just g++ the file and then ./ the out file, so what I need to do with the visual studio code?

The error is: launch: program 'enter program name, for example /Users/bill....

What I need to replace the workspaceRoot?

my file located here :

Thank you so much, here is the json file.

Hi @billchenxi,

VsCode does not automatically build your project in the way that Visual Studio does. It is designed as a light-weight editor with some debugging features. It isn't a full IDE.

You will have to either compile your code using the command-line, or you can set up a tasks.json to do the compilation step for you. An example is in our documentation:

After that, you can set up the 'program' component to be the output of your compilation. For example ${workspaceRoot}/a.out

I am getting Same error even after correcting what you said..

@heyAyushh You need to enter the name of the binary that you compiled in the string that has 'enter program name'.