cross-platform C/C++ project structure question

[idle geyser]

i genuinely can't seem to find this anywhere, i'm a beginner ish developer and have a couple of projects on github, when i was on linux i used to just have a build folder for my projects and call "cmake . -B build/" then just build it in there

right now i'm on windows, using visual studio instead of neovim, generating solution files using cmake on there makes it so when i open the solution i cant see the whole directory tree (because i'm in the build folder instead), so i'm not sure how i'm supposed to program and build the project at the same time

is there any person who does windows development who knows if my structure is just wrong or i'm doing something wrong?

oh yeah forgot to show what the structure is actually like in the first place

[icy ledge]

there's no need to generate VS project files. VS has built-in cmake support. just right click on your project folder > open in visual studio

[idle geyser]

but then build files will be written to "out" instead, specifically "out/build/<arch>-<build-type>" and setting VS_DEBUGGER_WORKING_DIRECTORY in cmake doesnt seem to affect the project's actual working directory

while if i open it using a solution file it actually picks up on it

is there not an industry standard?

[icy ledge]

there's a config file you can change these things in

[idle geyser]

okay i found that cmakesettings does this, but is there a way i can get cmake itself to set this? cause idk if you should commit an app with cmakesettings (or have ever seen anyone do that)

[icy ledge]

you commit the portable part of the cmakesettings

I don't think there's a way to do this in cmake directly

[harsh cobalt]

Please enable file extensions

Otherwise you will be confused about why two files named Something can exist at once

One .cpp, another .h
Maybe even a .inc too

[idle geyser]

i'm not that new to coding lol