VS Code + linux 上的 MS C++ 扩展 - 停留在安装教程上

Question

I am new to VS Code (used VS Community eventually) and tried to set up VS Code on raspberry pi (pi-os) and PC (Debian) following Get Started with C++ on Linux in Visual Studio Code but got stuck on the part setting up the launch.json for debugging the helloworld.cpp - as there is no such selection (with similar or comparable naming) as shown in the tutorial. If I copy the example given in the tutorial I can start debugging but don't get any output in terminal or the debug-console (other than debugger info), neither in the loop nor from the last cout statement.

just feeling a little frustrated for being so... newb...

selection in tutorial selection in my setup

Answer 1

Ok, finally got it working.

It is best to choose C/C++: (gdb) Launch for configuration and adapt the settings for program and cwd according to the tutorial.

The section with prelaunch Task is not really necessary if one builds prior to debugging.

If for any reason it is wanted, make sure to use the same name as in the tasks.json under label .

If I insert a second

cout << endl

at the end, I see the output before the program terminates; that let me draw the conclusion that cout output appears in whole lines only.

none the less the tutorial should be updated...