microsoft / microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools
Add a command for reading cmake environment defined in CMakePresets.json
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- TypeScript
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Description
### Brief Issue Summary
vscode-cmake-tools provides command substitution which can be used in VSCode's tasks.json and launch.json, but all those substitutions are predefined variables. I have a custom environment variable defined in CMakePresets.json:
```json
"version": 2,
"configurePresets": [
{
"name": "default",
"environment": {
"MY_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE": "Test",
}
}
}
```
I want to refer `MY_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE` in tasks.json, but vscode-cmake-tools doesn't have a command for it.
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by locating the command-substitution support used by tasks.json and launch.json, then inspect how environments from CMakePresets.json are made available. The change is complete when a command can read MY_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE from the selected preset and use its value in those VS Code configurations.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cmake, typescript, vscode
- Domain
- build-system, developer-experience, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100