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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

O yea, screenshot of it debugging in VS 2017 ;)

https://i.imgur.com/5GTdwNF.png

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 11:49 AM Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here's an updated Cmakesettings.json for Debug and Release.
> And a launch.vs.json you put into the /.vs/ folder that VS creates. Then
> you can debug with gdb in VS. (It adds launch entries with the correct
> config)
> Only thing, if you want to debug any kiface program like eeschema or
> pcbnew, you must set a breakpoint in corresponding OnKifaceStart first (and
> just step over on start). The kiface system confuses VS and without that
> breakpoint, its unable to see the rest of the files are loaded to alow
> setting breakpoints graphically.
>
> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 9:17 AM Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Nice. I tried using the VS Cmake support a long time ago when it was
>> initially released but still buggy. Great you got it fully working!
>> Honestly as nice as CLion can be, VS completely blows it away.
>>
>> Personally I would consider using a build and install root of
>>
>>
>>       "buildRoot": "${workspaceRoot}\\build\\${name}",
>>       "installRoot": "${workspaceRoot}\\install\\${name}",
>>
>> so it doesn't get buried in your user root and you end up wondering,
>> months later, where all your disk space went.
>>
>> This should be considered for commiting into the source tree. It doesn't
>> alter the source and still builds under msys.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 6:05 AM Andrew Lutsenko <anlutsenko@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've managed to get KiCad code base to build in VS 2017 and more
>>> importantly be parsed
>>> by intellisense. Thought I'd share the config for other windows devs.
>>>
>>> I've been using Atom so far with relative success but it's not great.
>>> Decided to try if KiCad can
>>> be worked on in real IDE with contextual autocomplete that works.
>>>
>>> MS has been investing in building support in Visual Studio for non ms
>>> build systems. GCC,
>>> clang, cmake, non x86 targets, all of this has been coming along in
>>> recent releases.
>>> Not everything works like in ms build projects, but it's still miles
>>> ahead of generic text editors.
>>>
>>> Prerequisite: have msys2 windows environment with working KiCad build.
>>>
>>> Get VS 15.8.0 or later. I've tested this on 15.8.1 community edition
>>> preview. (It's free).
>>>
>>> Install additional components:
>>> Linux development with C++
>>> Visual C++ tools for CMake and Linux
>>>
>>> Then open VS and go to File -> Open... -> CMake...
>>> select CMakeLists.txt in KiCad src root.
>>>
>>> Next go to CMake -> Change CMake Settings -> CMakeLists.txt
>>> In popup window choose Mingw64 Release (or Debug)
>>> A file named CMakeSettings.json will be created and you have to tweak a
>>> few things.
>>> I've attached my CMakeSettings.json for reference but the important bits
>>> are:
>>>
>>> configurations.environments.MINGW64_ROOT - this is path to your mingw64
>>> folder
>>> configurations.environments.FLAVOR - mingw flavor, I use
>>> x86_64-w64-mingw32
>>> configurations.environments.TOOLSET_VERSION should be autodetected, if
>>> not check
>>>     mingw64\lib\gcc\x86_64-w64-mingw32 folder for version. It's 7.3.0
>>> for me
>>> configurations.environments.INCLUDE -
>>> add ${env.MINGW64_ROOT}\\include to the list
>>> configurations.generator - I set it to "MSYS Makefiles" and VS frowns on
>>> it but it works.
>>>     Maybe "Unix Makefiles" work too, I didn't check.
>>> configurations.cmakeCommandArgs - this is the tricky one that I had to
>>> do trial and error
>>>    dance with a lot and also read cmake find rules that don't always
>>> work. I found this
>>>    combination to do the job:
>>>    "-DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=${env.MINGW64_ROOT} -DMINGW:STRING=TRUE
>>>     -DMSYS:STRING=TRUE -DCYGWIN:STRING=TRUE
>>>     -DOPENGL_INCLUDE_DIR=${env.MINGW64_ROOT}\\include",
>>> configurations.buildCommandArgs - remove the "-v" that VS puts there, it
>>> just prints version
>>>     for make. I put "-j6" instead to speed up the build.
>>> configurations.intelliSenseMode - VS should auto fill this to
>>> "linux-gcc-x64"
>>>
>>> Remaining configs can be left default, or you can tweak them to your
>>> taste.
>>>
>>> After you save the CMakeSettings.json VS will automatically regenerate
>>> CMake cache.
>>> Go to CMake menu and you can build all targets or specific ones from
>>> there.
>>> In my case intellisense only picked up cache after I did full build, so
>>> maybe it is required
>>> to do at least once.
>>>
>>> But result is so worth it:
>>>
>>> [image: intellisense.png]
>>>
>>> Hope this helps!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Andrew
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Mark
>>
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> --
> Mark
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Mark