To open the CMake Debugger in your project, you can select it from the command palette by pressing Ctrl+Shift+P.Īdditionally, it can be opened anywhere else you typically configure your project, such as in the CMake Project Outline in the CMake Tools side panel. This includes viewing variables, call stacks, and cache variables specific to CMake and the ability to set breakpoints on your CMakeLists.txt file and step through your code.

CMake Debugger FunctionalityĪs a user, you’ll see the same functionality as you would in a normal debugging session. We are excited to see how the open-source community works together to implement new ideas for the debugger. The debugger uses the widely supported Debug Adapter Protocol, which is compatible with many development environments. CMake 3.27 will ship with Visual Studio in a later release in 17.8. You can check your CMake version on your machine at any time by running cmake –version in a terminal window.

Please download the latest version for your OS via this link or update via your system package manager to access the CMake debugger in VS Code. This implementation is now available in CMake version 3.27. The Visual C++ team collaborated closely with Kitware, the CMake maintainers, to merge our CMake debugger implementation upstream and make this widely available. To see the full release notes for this release and what else is included, including bug fixes, please see the release notes. Now, you can debug your CMakeLists.txt scripts from VS Code using the CMake Tools Extension. You can also use the -noconsolelogger switch to disable the default console logger.The new CMake Debugger that was introduced in Visual Studio is now available in VS Code. In the MSBuild command line, you specify the custom logger by using the -logger switch. You might use a custom logger, for instance, to send build errors in email, log them to a database, or log them to an XML file. You can write your own logger by authoring a managed type that implements the ILogger interface. You can use the Structured log viewer to view binary logs in a way that makes it much easier to see what is going on.įor more information, see Command-line reference. In the following example, a binary log file is created with the name binarylogfilename. This log includes a detailed description of the build process and can be read by certain log analysis tools. You can save the log in compressed, binary format using the -binaryLogger ( bl) switch. msbuild MyProject.proj -t:go -fl1 -fl2 -fl3 -flp2:logfile=JustErrors.log errorsonly -flp3:logfile=JustWarnings.log warningsonlyįor more information, see Command-line reference. No name is specified for file 1, so the default name of msbuild1.log is used. The -fileLoggerParameters ( flp) switches for files 2 and 3 specify what to name each file and what to include in each file. The file numbers are specified just after the -fl and -flp switches (for example, -fl1 and -flp1). The example uses file numbers for each of the three files. The following example saves the entire log to msbuild1.log, just the errors to JustErrors.log, and just the warnings to JustWarnings.log. msbuild MyProject.proj -t:go -fl -flp:logfile=MyProjectOutput.log verbosity=diagnosticįor more information, see Command-line reference. You specify those two settings by using the -fileLoggerParameters ( flp) switch. In the following example, the log file is named MyProjectOutput.log, and the verbosity of the log output is set to diagnostic. The following example saves build data to a file that's named msbuild.log.

You can use the -fileLogger ( fl) switch to save build data to a file. The following table shows how the log verbosity (column values) affects which types of message (row values) are logged. The build process may be slower when you set the -verbosity to detailed and even slower when you set the -verbosity to diagnostic. For troubleshooting, use a verbosity level of either detailed ( d) or diagnostic ( diag), which provides the most information. When you build a project by using MSBuild without specifying a level of detail, the following information appears in the output log:Įrrors, warnings, and messages that are categorized as highly important.īy using the -verbosity ( -v) switch, you can control how much data appears in the output log. For more information, see How to: View, save, and configure build log files. If you build projects by using the Visual Studio IDE, you can troubleshoot those builds by reviewing build logs.

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