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Windows ARM64 support for CMake projects in Visual Studio

ErikaJanuary 21, 2021Jan 21, 202101/21/21

In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 Preview 3 we added support for deploying CMake projects to a remote Windows machine and debugging them with the Visual Studio remote tools. CMake developers targeting ARM64 Windows can now cross-compile (with cl or clang-cl), deploy, and debug their projects directly from Visual Studio. You can download and ...

C++ with Visual Studio and WSL2

ErikaJanuary 14, 2021Jan 14, 202101/14/21

Our team released native support for C++ with the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in Visual Studio in 2019. “Native support” means that all commands are executed locally instead of over a SSH connection. Since then, WSL2 has been announced and we’ve received questions about our support for WSL2 in Visual Studio. The purpose of this ...

Linux development with Visual Studio: first-class support for gdbserver, improved build times with Ninja, and updates to the Connection Manager

ErikaJune 2, 2020Jun 2, 202006/2/20

With Visual Studio 2019 you can build and debug C++ projects on a remote Linux system or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). You can get started with Linux development in Visual Studio using MSBuild-based Linux projects or our native support for CMake. CMake lets you use the same source code and build scripts to target multiple platforms ...

New templates for debugging CMake projects on remote systems and WSL in Visual Studio 2019

ErikaApril 3, 2020Apr 3, 202004/3/20

We heard your feedback that it can be difficult to configure debugging sessions on remote Linux systems or the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 Preview 2 we introduced a new debugging template to simplify debugging with gdb. The new cppgdb template We heard your feedback that the old ...

Visual Studio Code CMake Tools Extension: Multi-root workspaces and file-based API

ErikaFebruary 7, 2020Feb 7, 202002/7/20

The February 2020 update of the Visual Studio Code CMake Tools extension is now available. This release includes two of the extension’s top feature requests: file-based API support and multi-root workspaces. For a full list of this release’s improvements check out the release notes on GitHub. Multi-root workspace support The latest ...

Easily Add, Remove, and Rename Files and Targets in CMake Projects

Will BuikFebruary 6, 2020Feb 6, 202002/6/20

It’s easier than ever to work with CMake projects in Visual Studio 2019 16.5 Preview 2. Now you can add, remove, and rename source files and targets in your CMake projects from the IDE without manually editing your CMake scripts. When you add or remove files with the Solution Explorer, Visual Studio will automatically edit your CMake project...

Code Navigation for CMake Scripts

Will BuikFebruary 6, 2020Feb 6, 202002/6/20

Visual Studio 2019 16.5 Preview 2 makes it easy to make sense of complex CMake projects. Code navigation features such as Go To Definition and Find All References are now supported for variables, functions, and targets in CMake script files. This can be a huge timesaver because CMake projects with more than a handful of source files are often ...

CMake, Linux targeting, and IntelliSense improvements in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2

ErikaJanuary 24, 2020Jan 24, 202001/24/20

Visual Studio’s native support for CMake allows you to target both Windows and Linux from the comfort of a single IDE. Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 introduces several new features specific to cross-platform development, including: File copy optimizations for CMake projects targeting a remote ...

Improvements to Accuracy and Performance of Linux IntelliSense

ErikaJanuary 10, 2020Jan 10, 202001/10/20

This blog post was written by Paul Maybee, a Principal Software Engineer on the C++ Cross-Platform Team. Accurate C++ IntelliSense requires access to the C++ headers that are referenced by C++ source files. For Linux scenarios the headers referenced by a Linux MSBuild or CMake project are copied to Windows by Visual Studio from the Linux ...

Debugging Linux CMake Projects with gdbserver

ErikaDecember 18, 2019Dec 18, 201912/18/19

Update 2/20/20: We have addressed a bug which allows you to debug simple CMake projects using one level of CMakeLists.txt files with gdbserver in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 3. The example launch configuration has been updated below. Gdbserver is a program that allows you to remotely debug applications running on Linux. It is ...

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