Version 0.4.7 is a new development release of ilg-vscode.xpack; it fixes a bug and avoids a warning.

Install

The VS Code xPack C/C++ Managed Build Extension is available as ilg-vscode.xpack from the Visual Studio Code Marketplace.

It can also be installed from a terminal:

code --install-extension ilg-vscode.xpack@0.4.7

Changes

The 0.4.7 release is generally compatible with previous releases.

Bug fixes

  • [#9] - fix package.json watcher concurrency

Enhancements

  • [#10] - add watcher to update c_cpp_properties.json

Other changes

  • package.json: use extensionDependencies & qna
  • the README.md was reworked to refer to the project web

Known problems

  • npm picks package.json from xPack dependencies, which is generally not useful; the workaround is to add a property to settings.json:
"npm.exclude": "**/xpacks/**"

(fixed in 0.4.10)

Supported platforms

The ilg-vscode.xpack extension is fully portable and works on any platform supported by VS Code; internally it relies on xpm, which is also a portable application running on all platforms supported by npm/node.

However, for projects using binary xPacks, they are available mainly on the modern platforms, like Windows/macOS/Linux.

Final notes