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Search for compilerPath in the PATH environment variable #5908
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Thank you for creating this issue 🙏🏻 many other VSCODE extensions that work with CPPTools have a problem with this and cannot create independent extensions. e.g. take a look at here
I believe it could be better that all paths in the json config have access to the PATH environment variable.Bob Brown (@bobbrow) Should the env path also be checked for a default compiler? That may have an impact on launch time, as checking for N different names in path could be slow for some users.
We already check the env path during the search for default compilers on linux/mac. This issue is just about resolving
compilerPathinc_cpp_properties.jsonso that if you put 'g++' in there, we call 'which' on it and get the absolute path before sending the configuration across to the language server.- locked and limited conversation to collaborators
on Oct 8, 2020
A customer suggested this feature in an extension review. If
compilerPathis not an absolute path to a compiler, we could see if it is in thePATHand determine the absolute path ourselves.