need help including library from github with cmake and fetchcontent, but it isn't working

[glacial ore]

Ive been trying to include a library from github in cpp and for some reason it isn't working. Here is the repo ive been trying to include https://github.com/antelle/keyboard-auto-type?tab=readme-ov-file#installation
but i cant understand how to actually use the library.

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[glacial ore]

here is my file structure

[merry moon]

have you followed the Installation and Usage sections?

seems well documented

[glacial ore]

Ive copy pasted it into my cmakelists.txtr

here is all like whats in my project:

this is my fs:

it gives me this whenever it ry to run a simple hello world

idk what im doing wrong

i got the verison number right, the link right, and i think everything else right

[glacial ore]

when I built the project, the fetch content worked pretty well:

it got the whole git repo into the build/_deps/ folder

[merry moon]

cmake and cpp look fine. you must have something configured wrong in vscode

[glacial ore]

hwo do i configure vscode?

[grand cliff]

You (basically) have to install the cmake-tools extension and run CMake Configure from the VSC command palette (CTRL/Cmd + Shift + P or F1)

[glacial ore]

I did that

I did that multiple times

[grand cliff]

Did it generate a build-commands.json in your build directory?

[glacial ore]

no

it didnt

[grand cliff]

Probably it’s trying to use the Ninja generator and failing since it already has a makefile generator, the easiest path forward is to delete the build folder and reconfigure using the plugin

[glacial ore]

i have a compile-comands.js

json

[glacial ore]

is that the same thing as build-comands

[grand cliff]

Yeah, that’s the one I meant, I always forget the exact name

[glacial ore]

yea i have that

[grand cliff]

In that case it’s probably the C++ extension’s error cache acting up again (it’s a supposedly fixed bug), you can try disabling it: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/cpp/faq-cpp#_how-do-i-disable-the-intellisense-cache-ipch

[glacial ore]

that didn't relly do anythiung tho

[glacial ore]

im still getting the error

[grand cliff]

Can you try building it, it also caches build errors from when you build using the plugin (seems that way since the source is gcc)

[glacial ore]

wait

so like build with ctrl chift p build or cmake ..

?

[grand cliff]

There’s a tab on the left with the cmake logo, that’s the most sure way

[glacial ore]

i got this with the command pallet build option

[glacial ore]

it gives me the same output with the extension dashboard thingie

[grand cliff]

In that case, try enabling CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE in your CMakeLists.txt using set(CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE ON)

Since it seems like keyboard-auto-type isn’t ending up in your include paths

[glacial ore]

its still giving me the same error, can we manually include it?

[glacial ore]

I mena ive tried manually including it but i didn't know which file to include

could you try to make a simple main.cpp and makefilelists, and try to reproduce the problem on ur end?

i think we might be able to figure out the issue if its js my IDE or me js being stupid

[grand cliff]

Not right now, but I can in around 15 minutes

[glacial ore]

okay, I can wait 🙂

[glacial ore]

are you free now?

k

lmk if ur able to reproduce the error

[grand cliff]

It works for me out of the box, the only challenge I had was intalling the required packages for linux (I run everything in a docker container)

Though looking through the logs that you sent (which I couldn't open before on mobile), there seems to be a compatibility issue with your cmake generated script and your gcc

[grand cliff]

Can you try doing the set(CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE ON) in CMakeLists.txt, and post the output, since it seems to be limited to the Windows version

[glacial ore]

I had that on the whole time

[glacial ore]

let me do that again then

[grand cliff]

Could you post the whole output, I just need to see the command it's running to get that error, since it seems like a config issue for Windows

[glacial ore]

okay

here

[glacial ore]

sry abt that, I thought that was the whole output

[grand cliff]

There don't seem to be any issues with the build commands, the best advice I can give is to try and either clean-reconfigure, or try reinstalling/repairing mingw; or as a last resort trying to use the Visual Studio generator in place of the Makefile generator and using Visual Studio Community

[glacial ore]

do you think that visual studio community would be a better way to develop cpp code as a whole than vscode?

[grand cliff]

For beginners, absolutely, for myself, I usually use a custom VSCode + DevContainers setup since I often use other languages, and I'm mac based running linux stuff

[glacial ore]

oh okay, thanks for your suggestion! I've programmed in cpp in vscode, before (raylib), but I normally use js, and java, for my daily languages, so like im kind of mixed between vscode and visual studio

[honest terrace]

@glacial ore Has your question been resolved? If so, type !solved :)

[glacial ore]

hey

I've got vscode running, and it completes with no errors!

I mean visual studio

[merry moon]

can't beat the VS debugger

[glacial ore]

yea i did that when I tried using raylib for cpp[

[glacial ore]

yea it was a pain to debug the code though lol

like nvim debuggers kinda suck if your config sucks as a whole

so it was kinda messy code

[merry moon]

VS debugger is out of the box and the best available C++ debugger imo

uhhh yeah

is that some sort of conditional breakpoint?

I guess you mean watchpoints?

I can't find a term called "watchdogs"