To view the full list of updates with this release, please look at our CHANGELOG<\/a>. This release features 2 contributions from our open-source community (@OrkunTokdemir and @hippo91). We greatly appreciate your continued support!<\/p>\n The <\/span><\/span>CMake<\/span>: Quick Start<\/span><\/span> command <\/span>is a command <\/span>that <\/span>a<\/span>ssists<\/span> users <\/span>in<\/span> building <\/span>an existing <\/span>simple <\/span>project <\/span>with <\/span>CMake<\/span> when they <\/span>do not have a CMakeLists.txt file in their project. <\/span>It generates a CMakeLists.txt file for you, so that you can add <\/span>CMake<\/span> support to your project.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This command has been updated to integrate better with your pre-existing project needs by:<\/p>\n Now, when you are starting up a CMake project and need to onboard .cpp files to CMake, you are set up for ultimate levels of customizability and success.<\/p>\n When you invoke\u00a0CMake: Quick Start<\/strong> via the command palette ( For the CMakeLists.txt file, you will now have additional options to add CPack and CTest support to your CMakeLists.txt file.<\/p>\n It will then enter an optional workflow to generate a CMakePresets.json. CMake presets are a central JSON file that store CMake configurations for CMake actions like configure, build, test, and more. This allows you to seamlessly move your project between desired configurations, other colleagues, different operating systems, and other IDEs.<\/p>\n In this workflow, the command palette will prompt you to select a configuration type to use as a configure preset. You can generate from a custom configure preset, a toolchain file, or by scanning your machine for compilers. If you’re just getting started with CMake, we’d recommend creating from compilers. For more on configure presets, please read our docs<\/a>.<\/p>\n After going through the entire updated workflow, you’ll be able to build your .cpp files using CMake with a new CMakeLists.txt file and CMakePresets.json file.<\/p>\n We have added support for CMake presets files up to version 8 in our VS Code extension.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n CMake presets v7 includes the support for the <\/span>trace<\/span><\/b> property in your configure presets. 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With this release, we have some new updates to the extension to improve CMake integrations with the extension’s support. Some major highlights include improvements to the CMake: Quick Start command and support for CMake presets v7 and v8. To view the full list […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85413,"featured_media":35994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,266,275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cplusplus","category-cmake","category-visual-studio-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" The May release of CMake Tools in VS Code is now available. With this release, we have some new updates to the extension to improve CMake integrations with the extension’s support. 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How it works<\/strong><\/h5>\n
Ctrl+Shift+P<\/code>), you’ll be prompted to name your project. From there, we’ve enhanced our experience to dynamically generate a CMakeLists.txt file and CMakePresets.json file.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/05\/quick-start-cpack-ctest.png\")
<\/a>Additionally, you can select to add any pre-existing .cpp files in your projects as CMake targets in your CMakeLists.txt file, so that you can run these with CMake. If you do not select a pre-existing .cpp file or you don’t have any pre-existing .cpp files, the extension will generate a new “Hello World” .cpp file and add it as a target.<\/p>\n![\"The](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/05\/add-targets-cmake-quickstart.png\")
<\/a>This will generate the CMakeLists.txt file that your project will need to build with CMake.<\/p>\n![\"Option](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2024\/05\/configure-preset-cmake-quickstart.png\")
<\/a><\/p>\nCMake Presets v7 and v8 Support<\/h3>\n
What do you think?<\/h3>\n