Struggling to find CMakeSettings.json equivalent in VS Code

[kvnandula04]

I'm struggling to find any information on the docs/forums about how exactly I can setup the same configurations I have on Visual Studio for CMake in VS Code.

From my understanding, it seems CMakeSettings.json is strictly for Visual Studio which I have and it works fine on Visual Studio. But, when I try to open and build the same codebase on VS code, I get a CMake error because the build root property from CMakeSettings.json doesn't apply to VS code thus it doesn't find the right build root.

I have tried to configure a few things with CMakePresets.json but again I couldn't properly translate from CMakeSettings.json to presets.

I'm essentially trying to find the equivalent of this set of configurations in the VS code's CMake Tools extension:

Any help on this would be much appreciated!

[gcampbell-msft]

@kvnandula04 Apologies for the delay in response. However, the officially supported configuration control using cmake is CMakePresets.json!

There are docs here: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-presets.7.html, as well as docs for this extension here: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools/blob/main/docs/cmake-presets.md.

We also have the Quick Start experience which can help you create a CMakePresets.json file and allow you to control your configurations.