Install and Run C++ in Visual Studio Code (Linux)

Covers how to do the following under Linux (Ubuntu):
- Install G++ and GDB
- Install VS Code
- Open a workspace for multiple activities (labs / assignments)
- Compile and run from within VS Code

[@tomplaner1488]

Dr. Fraser. Thank you for what you are doing. I am 81 years old. I have, for many years, wanted to learn some basics about programming. I shall be following your site.

[@samuelaktarlaskar9740]

How is your progress going, Grandpa? ;)

[@emanuelepacini_]

u r a legend

[@radhekrishanrathod141]

I always think I know everything. and find it very difficult to learn new thing because of lazyness and fear. I don't know how to deal

[@prakhargupta8036]

GFG kr le ho jai g

[@uniquescience7047]

@@prakhargupta8036 saale prakhar dalle

[@Mike-cu3kj]

I can't thank you enough for this. I've spent about 20 hours trying to get c++ to compile and run on vscode linux. Now it finally works. Thank you sooo much for this

[@Beryesa.]

Man, your voice is relaxing. :D I don't know but feels like more polite lol :D

[@ai.shimul]

finally got vs code up and running in debian... hats off to you, sir 😄

[@hennero.3826]

Thank you very much! Following these instructions, I could easily get the C++ compiler (g++) running in my existing VS Code that I had installed a few weeks ago to use PlatformIO. 🙂
As I am new to VS Code and therefore not familiar yet with how the use the different extensions, I appreciate especially the valuable information you provided regarding starting the IDE from the command line! This allows me to simply start the software from either a folder containing PlatformIO projects or a folder that I am using for the C++ stuff.🙂

[@peterhuesmann3956]

Another person thanking you here. I have been away a couple years from trying to get back into coding. This saved me a lot of time to get started with VS Code in Linux.

[@parasjain1489]

Thank you so much. I am a coder and I was struggling with this for half an hour and your solution worked. Thanks again.

[@chrochetfan7274]

How is developing going?

[@mhougey]

thank you for including a section about things that can go wrong.

[@camdenmacleod16]

Super helpful! I followed a website tutorial but it didn't work for me, so thanks for making this!

[@harshvardhan7447]

Classic code is not working
Error showing

[@wokeclub1844]

If anyone has #include errors, try changing clang to g++ in the json file

[@ritchielrez1680]

You can install Vscode from snap store without the terminal.

[@parthsalat]

Agreed, the ubuntu store is a great place for beginners

[@thegettokidZz]

mine just opens an empty json without anything inside except for my theme. the little suggestion bar doesn't do after i select GDB/LLDB just opens the empty json file in settings.json

[@vivekpatil2930]

same, if you fix the problem please let me know.

[@thegettokidZz]

if you still have this problem it's probably because you're in the wrong json file. You need to switch to the configuration json instead of the settings.json

[@ayeshaabbasi1871]

Thanks a lot man I was struggling with vs code for quite long time but can't understand anything and your video worked like a magic✨

[@rahulsriram6295]

Sir, I watched all your videos. There's no particular tutorial on CZcams about setting up an IDE or Editor for programming in Assembly. Every CS student has to go through assembly programming. I hope you'd make a tutorial soon

[@zuhail339]

Try to study Art of assembly language book

[@qpandrei01]

Definitely recommend this tut fixed to topic and precise. Nothing more just go with this one

[@leythecg]

Great Tutorial! It works finally on my Mint 20! Thanks so much!

[@technologyexplained]

hello, this tutorial is amazing. But I have an issue regarding the installation of classic code. I have a Mac of which the architecture is M1, and therefore it is giving the error:
snap "code" is not available on stable for this architucture (arm64) but exists on other architectures (amd64)
what should I do??

[@idkwhatagah7193]

Same

[@usuallyclueless4477]

Just a little correction, installing snap alone didn't work because it said " sudo: snap: command not found"
It worked after installing snapd after it.

[@Raining_Potatoes]

what did you type in the command line to get that

[@clickjack8011]

Thanks alot man, you helped me get past hours worth of hassle.

[@navpreet902]

I am from India Thanku very much it helped me alot

[@Bearded_Dragon_Sir]

Setting the environment doesn't work for me, all it does it open a .json settings file and then when i try to run it again it does the same thing all over.

[@moonrise_beatrix]

thank you for this tutorial .. it was
so easy to understand and super useful!

[@mute3164]

Thank you so much, I tried searching for it but none of the articles I found explained as clearly as your video.

[@raghavendra6978]

Thanks a lot for your simplest tutorial 🙏🙏

[@usamamuhammadismail3324]

I really appreciate this video. Love from Pakistan.

[@zlobert9877]

Only thing that is different on my system(linux mint) is that the "[1] + done" is on the same line(no spacing between) as the string i printed out. Would like to change that.

[@stroherdebora]

Thanks man! That was very helpful!

[@nunyobidness571]

Why does VS Code automatically create the launch.json file here? Is there some sort of add-on that does it? Mine only creates a tasks.json file.

[@shahanahmedkhan6101]

Love you brother, you made it simple

[@themuhammad1]

Hi i need help setting up VS code for C++ windows executable apps but I use Ubuntu not Windows

[@vladimirscekic4935]

Thank you for this video, can i ask you: how setting/use hot keys for the compilier in VScode? If i want use keybord for the start programm.

[@ottodvalishvili7601]

Great video. Btw what computer glasses are u wearing?

[@fernandobarbosa25]

Extremely helpful and didactic! Thanks!

[@Basti1987chiller]

Very good explaination thank you Professor Fraser

[@sivaranjani-37]

Thank you so much for this kind of video

[@ebiscaia]

Thanks. Followed your instructions in Manjaro Linux and used clang instead

[@royjr.8965]

Hi Brian, thanks for this super helpful video.
Just a problem I'm facing: I'm having to choose the environment (g++) every time I hit F5 not sure why? Any suggestions? thanks again!!

[@Xiahab]

This cool. You are the best!

[@edwardonsax9919]

I have a permissions issue. My .c file compile/build but when I run them they all say permission denied. This is what shows in the xterm that pops up. Even after I set the chmod +x or even 788 I still get this. What do I need to do? It does this whether in sh, bash, or csh

[@kubakakauko]

How would one add includes, Libs and inherit from other files ?

[@duyviet5801]

YOU SAVE MY LIFE! THANK YOU!

[@mritunjay7065]

Very helpful video for beginners like me !

[@timmartin6493]

Thank you video was helpful second time!!!

[@lukmanalghdamsi3189]

for some reason my pc download "lunch.json" configuration empty, so i had to write the configuration from you in 7:57. it works now but i don't know why that happened. i am using pop os

[@beast4000]

Thanks for the info!!

[@adamasimolowo8285]

When I run C++ code to compile, my system freezes for a bit before I see any output in the terminal. After the compilation, my system(the VM image I'm using) ends up very laggy. I'll find a fix for this, but seems like it's an issue with the RAM and/or CPU.

[@elmahmoud2349]

did u fix it?

[@pwabhee0292]

Thank you so much. It was very helpful.

[@Techtrendsgadget]

thanku very much, for such type of knowledge.

[@mayamenaifi6031]

Finally.. It worked

[@kodizhuk]

thanks, it helps a lot for starting

[@johnadams9418]

thank's man, you've very helped me.

[@badrelkholy8036]

Thank you so much, it was really helpful

[@sinanozsahin8138]

Thank you very much.. It's very helpful for me..

[@mrhunter7382]

hello sir,,I wana specify that i will debug with c++17 in vscode. than how to set??i wish u will make a video

[@shokhrukhbekyursunjonov6203]

Thank you very much, it really worked bro!

[@ZgavY]

I installed vsc without g++ and It wouldn't run my hello world. Is that it? If I install g++ will it work?

[@AangContreras]

Yes, g++ is the compiler n.n

[@abdulbaricou]

it works with kali linux kindly guide me

[@akashappu7550]

What is( [1] +done )mean?

[@santiagoeguren8310]

Excellent tutorial!!!!

[@joaopedromarques1549]

Hello, thank you for help me. You gained one more subscriber Brazilian

[@sudhansumtripathy]

can we stop the automatic generation of the .exe file

[@shoaibishaqkhan4745]

love you brother....

[@mr.attila28]

You didn't include apt install gdb ! some ppls can have truble with that !

[@sweetjj8530]

Sir really thank you. You are awesome

[@marcelocorrea9830]

Excelente explicação! Muito obrigado!

[@vahemuradyan7258]

thank you that helps a lot

[@daniellima3730]

Thanks for the video!

[@celestialadministration]

How do you get the updated 10.02

[@vivarantx]

great video man

[@kumarnishant6635]

Thanks, helped a lot

[@harshit741]

at 7:51 , i can see only two options, ie, cpp build and debug active files,, no option for g++, what shall i do?

[@kamalsharma3289]

thanks bro it really help me

[@joshvafranklin7038]

Thanks man . Till now I thought
Hello world " [1] + Done" was due to error.

[@hanzalamansoor]

I got a message : unable to locate gdp

[@rum5117]

Love you!

[@udayanmajumder474]

tnks its very helpful

[@apriantohendri999]

i got doesnt exist message? help

[@nguyencung2269]

Thank you very much!

[@rabeehMadathil001]

thank you sir god bless you

[@scotteebee]

Why don’t you show how to develop with more than one .cpp file? Nobody uses a single .cpp file in real life.

[@gassinbeats1156]

2:17
*holding my breath*
me: don’t do it! STOP! don’t do it
That was close

[@mayurghuge8846]

Thank you.

[@speconcloud9]

Thankyou so much

[@jaquelineabreu861]

Me ajudou muito! Obrigada! :D

[@Roman-uy7qp]

Great video :)

[@abdelaziz2788]

omg linux is so much simpler and cleaner than windows

[@marciocintra2988]

awesome tutorial, +1 sub

[@calin-andreipantis-simut6241]

Thank you!

[@ronaldlogan3525]

I could not get it to work. followed your instructions exactly. I suspect you don't really know how to do it

[@sunglevan8343]

thank you

[@anishchauhan4127]

Thank you soooo muchh sir ❤️

[@budstawudsta9115]

thank you so much

[@csjoy4682]

Thanks Much

[@slaozeren8742]

I love you!

[@aryanarya8]

Super Helpful Sir!

[@market_advice266]

thanks man

[@fredricksolomonm7363]

Thanks!!!!

[@TekhneWithHomayoon]

best

[@Thiago-rr5kz]

obrigado