DevelopmentVSCode

Linux Development with VS Code

Minidev Login setup

• first, create an SSH key to auto login to the dev server 'minidev'.
• Install an SSH client: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/troubleshooting#_installing-a-supported-ssh-client

• Setup a key on your PC, and copy it to minidev. https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/troubleshooting#_configuring-key-based-authentication
• In powershell:
  • ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
  • $USER_AT_HOST="kevinb@minidev"
  • $PUBKEYPATH="$HOME\.ssh\id_rsa.pub"
  • $pubKey=(Get-Content "$PUBKEYPATH" | Out-String); ssh "$USER_AT_HOST" "mkdir -p ~/.ssh && chmod 700 ~/.ssh && echo '${pubKey}' >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys && chmod 600 ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"
• Make sure you can login without a password:
  • ssh kevinb@minidev
• Make sure you have the SVN directory checked out locally. Usually this is in $HOME/svn/vr/linux.
  • mkdir -p ~/svn/vr && cd ~/svn/vr/ && svn co http://svn/svn/linux/

VS Code Setup

Following this article: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

• Install VS Code from https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/windows
• Install the Remote Development Extension Pack https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack
• Open VS code. Follow the instructions here: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh#_connect-to-a-remote-host
• Open the forkliftreader_linux folder in src. $HOME/svn/vr/linux/src/forkliftreader_linux. A barebones vscode environment should be setup already.
• Setup more vscode extensions:
  • C/C++ Extension Pack
  • C/C++ Intellisense
  • SVN
  • vscode-proto3
  • Python
  • Pylance

Other

Setup Intellisense. First time run gtags at project root:

gtags

(needed?)

Building Code

Terminal -> Run Build Task. Will run 'make'

Debugging

To debug the application, use 'F5' or click 'Start Debugging'. This will run a new version of the RFID service.

Note that breakpoints and debugging also work really well.

Troubleshooting

If you get an error like:

Then open a .c file so that it knows what to do.