How to use GCC with Microsoft Visual Studio?

Question

I am creating a very large project (a few thousand lines) and so would rather not use Notepad++. An IDE would make it so much easier. I have experience with Microsoft Visual

Answer 1

I'm from the future.

I keep (poking at) a C/C++ toolchain using Visual Code on Win/Lin/Mac and MinGW installed from Choclatey. (This was done for my sanity - install GDB and GCC however you want)

I've run it with GCC and GDB with IntelliSense using MS's own weird JSON makefiles. Someday, someone (you?) will write a Gradle or Python script to generate these; for now the examples online in the docs seem to work.

It seems to require three types of JSON thing;

• a single IntelliSense configuration for the whole workspace
• a Debugging Configuration entry for each binary you want to debug
  • these can invoke the build tasks
• a Build Task per-artifact
  • I don't think that there's a "require" or "dependency" thingie-mah-bob; sorry