Kick off VSCode for C and GTK 3.

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Code GTK 3 in C with VSCode

Kick off VSCode for C and GTK 3.

c_cpp_properties.json

{
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "C Linux GTK3",
      "includePath": [
        "${workspaceFolder}/**",
        "/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include/",
        "/usr/include/gtk-3.0",
        "/usr/include/pango-1.0",
        "/usr/include/glib-2.0",
        "/usr/lib/libffi-3.2.1",
        "/usr/include/harfbuzz",
        "/usr/include/fribidi",
        "/usr/include/freetype",
        "/usr/include/libpng16",
        "/usr/include/cairo",
        "/usr/include/pixman-1",
        "/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0",
        "/usr/include/libmount",
        "/usr/include/blkid",
        "/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0",
        "/usr/include/atk-1.0",
        "/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0",
        "/usr/include/at-spi-2.0",
        "/usr/include/dbus-1.0",
        "/usr/lib/dbus-1.0/include",
        "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.2.0/include",
        "/usr/local/include",
        "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.2.0/include-fixed",
        "/usr/include"
      ],
      "defines": [],
      "compilerPath": "/usr/bin/gcc",
      "cStandard": "c11",
      "cppStandard": "c++17",
      "intelliSenseMode": "clang-x64",
      "compilerArgs": [
        "-Wall",
        "-Wextra",
        "-mtune=native",
        "-no-pie",
        "`pkg-config gtk+-3.0 --cflags`",
        "`pkg-config --libs gtk+-3.0`",
        "-lm"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "version": 4
}

Code GTK 3 in C with VSCode

Kick off VSCode for C and GTK 3.

Prerequisites

Compiler

GCC and Clang

Build Tools

pkg-config and GNU Make

Used Extension

Name: C/C++
Id: ms-vscode.cpptools
Description: C/C++ IntelliSense, debugging, and code browsing.
Version: 0.26.2
Publisher: Microsoft
VS Marketplace Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.cpptools

Config

see:
.vscode/c_cpp_properties.json

That is basically:
pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-3.0

Where your glibconfig.h lives:
/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include/

And the output from
cpp -v

That is my include search path for the C preprocessor:

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.2.0/include
/usr/local/include
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.2.0/include-fixed
/usr/include

Prerequisites

Compiler

GCC and Clang

Build Tools

pkg-config and GNU Make (optional)

Used Extension

Name: C/C++
Id: ms-vscode.cpptools
Description: C/C++ IntelliSense, debugging, and code browsing.
Version: 0.26.2
Publisher: Microsoft
VS Marketplace Link: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.cpptools

Config

see:
.vscode/c_cpp_properties.json

That is basically:
pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-3.0

Where your glibconfig.h lives:
/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include/

And the output from
cpp -v

That is my include search path for the C preprocessor:

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.2.0/include
/usr/local/include
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/9.2.0/include-fixed
/usr/include

Hi, i'm having some trouble with setting this up, do you have discord please?

Hi!
It totally depends on your tool chain.
If you use the gnu tool chain you can try to clone this first.

Take care, there is still rust code in the repo. The Ms c/cpp extension is under heavy development. I tried to set it up on windows and it was not nice.

I bought an ultimate licence of jet brains development tools because I use C#, python, Java, go and typescript too.

Even i had serious issues using Clion years back for plain c with the gnu tool chain.

And yes I do have discord but I am currently very busy.