configure-vscode-for-bazel 0.3.0

Generate VSCode configuration for selected Bazel C++ targets

configure-vscode-for-bazel

If you want to work with C++ Bazel targets in VS Code, you can use configure-vscode-for-bazel to generate a VS Code configuration. This tool supports generating:

• .vscode/launch.json and tasks.json files that contain selected targets for debugging and compiling in VS Code and
• a compile_commands.json file using bazel-compile-commands-extractor for selected targets.

To generate these for a defined set of targets, run

uvx configure-vscode-for-bazel //path/to/your/target/...

This will be forwarded to a bazel query listing all cc_binary and cc_test targets. Then, when you go to VSCode -> Run and Debug (Ctrl+Shift+D) you'll be able to select an executable. By pressing ▶ Start Debugging (F5), you'll trigger a bazel build command and start debugging the executable. The latter is provided by C/C++ Microsoft extension.

Make sure you compile with debug symbols (--compilation_mode=dbg) enabled. You can pass your Bazel flags to this tool with --additional-debug-arg.

In addition, a .vscode/BUILD.bazel file will be created and bazel-compile-commands-**extractor** run to create a compile_commands.json in the workspace root. See the usage documentation for more information.