Visual Studio Code C/C++ Extension cannot find compiler path - visual-studio-code

Problem:
The program works but the intellisense doesnt recognize the compiler.
Specifications:
I use wsl. Installed from powershell
What i've tried:
I reinstalled both wsl,gcc and vscode and the c/c++ extension
Some Screenshots:
Gcc location in pc
The actual error
what is causes

If you are using Windows, GCC installed on your virtual machine is independant of your primary OS. It seems GCC is installed on your VM. On Ubuntu/Linux, use the following commands to install a GCC compiler:
sudo apt update
sudo apt install build-essential
Furthermore, Visual Studio is simply a text editor. If you want to compile and execute C/C++ on VS, the simplest way is to compile via Powershell on Windows provided you have GCC installed.

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I'm not able to use my C/C++ compiler on vscode

I followed the gcc compiler installation tutorial for windows from the vscode website: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/config-mingw
And the bin folder (C:\msys64\mingw64\bin) is empty, so i'm not able to run the "g++ --version" by adding this path to the Windows path environment variable.
My alternative to it was to use the codeblocks compiler to run my code in vscode, by adding this path: (C:\Program Files\CodeBlocks\MinGW\bin) to the "path" selection in the windows environment variables.
I want to make the MSYS2 compiler work properly in my vscode.
Hope you guys can help me!
MSYS2 comes with a package manager pacman that you should use to install any components you need.
In your case, open the MSYS2 shell (by running mingw64.exe) and run the following commands:
pacman -Syu --noconfirm
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
The first command will tell the package manager to update it's database, the second command will get the MinGW-w64 64-bit GCC compiler.
If you don't really need MSYS2 (e.g. because you dan't plan to use the MSYS2 shell) you could also consider getting a standalone MinGW-w64 build from https://winlibs.com/

VS Code not running C

I can't for the life of me get VSC to run C programs. The code in question runs correctly on Replit.
Extension installed
GCC installed
(GCC file path was added to the windows environment)
I tried uninstalling and re-installing. And...
It says I need a C extension.
Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening?
You still have to configure vscode well, as said in the doc.
If C\C++ extension is installed it will be asked to configure it for debugging or building, just follow the documentation.
But it is still not running, execute your program in the terminal with the gcc command: gcc filename+extension -o filenameExe

Strange vscode issue in WSL

I've been trying to set up the vscode code . shortcut to work in WSL. Following the instructions from the vscode website, I reinstalled vscode in windows, reinstalled the Remote-Wsl extension, made sure it was in my System Path, and tried running code . in the WSL linux distro terminal. I get the message instructing me to install it on the windows side, and asking me if I want to continue. I hit yes, but it doesn't create the code server folder in my home directory. Typing code . again does the same thing.
Does anyone know why this may be?
This is the output text:
To use Visual Studio Code with the Windows Subsystem for Linux, please install Visual Studio Code in Windows and uninstall the Linux version in WSL. You can then use the code command in a WSL terminal just as you would in a normal command prompt.
Do you want to continue anyway? [y/N]
The error message isn't just pointing out that you need to install the Windows version, but it indicates that you have the Linux version installed in WSL and should remove it.
From that, it sounds like at some point you may have installed the Linux version of VSCode in WSL, and that one is taking priority. You'll need to uninstall it in order to run the Windows version of VSCode with the "Remote - WSL" extension.
You don't mention what distribution you are running, but if it is Ubuntu, try:
sudo apt remove code # or
sudo apt remove code-insiders
Also see the uninstall doc from Microsoft.

Raku: Installation of Gnome::Gtk3 on Windows

I am trying to install the Raku module «Gnome::Gtk3» module on a Windows pc, without success.
Powershell> zef install Gnome::Gtk3
This fails with a lot of "Cannot locate native library"-messages.
I have installed Raku with choco, along with git. And have fixed the path.
That alone took quite some time to figure out, due to missing documentation.
I have installed Gtk, as described here: https://www.gtk.org/docs/installations/windows
But Raku is unable to locate the libraries. Is this something that can work, or do
I have to use the Windows Subsystem for Linux?
(I am aware of the «GTK::Simple» module, but cannot use that as a replacement as it lacks support for keyboard interrupts - which I need.
I have installed it, as it states that it installs the GTK dll's as well.)
In order to make this kind of modules work, you need the -dev version of the library, that is, the DLLs which are actually the ones that NativeCall uses. This tutorial shows how to set them up for C++ and Python, Raku shouldn't be too different.
This now installs on MSYS2, Windows 10. First download the latest version of rakudo from here and extract the zip file to e.g. C:\rakudo-2020.11. Then install MSYS2, and when finished open the MSYS2 terminal window and install the following packages:
$ pacman -Syu
$ pacman -S base-devel gcc git libcrypt-devel libreadline
$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3
$ pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-toolchain
Then add the following to the MSYS2 ~/.bashrc configuration file:
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/mingw64/lib/pkgconfig
export PATH="$PATH:/c/rakudo-2020.11/bin:/c/rakudo-2020.11/share/perl6/site/bin"
export PATH="$PATH:/mingw64/bin"
Save the updated .bashrc and reload it from the MSYS2 terminal prompt:
$ source ~/.bashrc
Finally, install Gnome::Gtk3:
$ zef install Gnome::Gtk3

Failed to install Platformio IDE in vscode

Problem
I'm using platformio IDE in vscode.
Before 2019.10.11, the platformio IDE extension worked well.
But after 2019.10.11, every time I open vscode I get this message.
Installing PlatformIO Core...
Please do not close this window and do not open other folders until this process is completed.
Failed to install PlatformIO IDE.
No more information shows.
What I Have Tried
Uninstall vscode and reinstall it
Uninstall platformio IDE and reinstall it
Downgrade vscode from 1.39 to 1.37
Downgrade platfotmio IDE from 1.90 to 1.83
pip --no-cache-dir install -U platformio
conda install platformio
pip uninstall platform and then pip install platformio
Restart the computer
Uninstall platformio IDE and delete all the folders and files whose names contain 'platformio', and than reinstall platformio
Run vscode as administrator and install platformio IDE
I still haven't fixed the problem now.
What I Have Found
After I uninstall platformio IDE and tried to reinstall it (of course I failed), I found the folder "C:\Users\Bowman.platformio"'s size is only 0KB, and it contains only one folder ".cache".
What I Have Installed in My Computer
Anaconda(Python 3.7)
JDK
node.js
.NET Core
mingw64
Visual Studio 2019
Visual Studio 2017
Stm32CubeIDE
Today I tried and (initially) failed to install PlatformIO on a Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon machine. VSCode V1.61.2 was freshly installed, Python3 was installed.
Trying to install PlatformIO told me that the Python on the machine was not suitable and installation failed.
After enabling Developer mode in VSCode (Help | Toggle Developer Tools) and trying the install again, I found an error message that told me that the distutils package for Python was missing.
That is because I had not installed pip3.
In the terminal, run sudo apt install python3-pip
That gets you the appropriate packages and then PlatformIO will install properly.
good afternoon.
I had exactly the same issue.
Did pretty much the same topics you described.
For me it was related to the anaconda software.
I uninstalled anaconda, uninstall/reinstall platformio in the visual studio environment and it worked.
I got the message that the platformio service was already started and that got me thinking.
regards
thats no big deal i had the same issue....just go to help > Toggle developers and in that press console and search platformIo that will show the error most likely with python installation ...you might wants to install some packages manually....
i was using ubuntu...so python packages conflicts...