The following extensions must be installed:
- C/C++: From Microsoft
- Cortex-Debug: From marus25
- Makefile Tools: From Microsoft
- CMake Tools: From Microsoft
Other extensions are useful:
- CMake: From twxs
- Doxygen Documentation Generator: From Christoph Schlosser
- gitignore: From CodeZombie
- GitLens - Git supercharged: From Eric Amodio
- LinkerScript: From Zixuan Wang
- Platform IDE: From PlatformIO
One can use the embedded terminal and run make
make build
make clean
make flash
make docs
or run make help to see other options.
Or using the GUI, select Run Build Task... option from the Terminal menu. At the command line, a menu is shown with a subset of the Makefile options:
Make: make build
Make: make clean
Make: make flash
To run, select Run without debugging or Start Debugging from the Run menu. Or press Ctrl-F5 or F5, respectively.
There are builtin dependencies. For example, running automatically run the "Make: make build* task before starting.