issues setting up raylib in VS Code

[simple turtle]

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[zealous oasis]

@gloomy nova

[gloomy nova]

You have multiple different compilers installed, that appear to conflict with each other

Notice how the log shows both C:\msys64 (from msys2), and C:/raylib/w64devkit that you installed from some raylib thing

Get rid of C:\raylib

Do you know what a terminal is?

[zealous oasis]

Yes, I downloaded the latter from the raylib website

Okay so it seems that I have used both YOUR way (with the pacman command) and that tutorial's way (using the raylib website) to download raylib

[gloomy nova]

In short, msys2 is the best mingw distribution around, and it already lets you install the most common libraries (including raylib), so downloading libraries from elsewhere is usually a waste of time, and takes more effort than downloading them from msys2

[zealous oasis]

Well I have done that pacman thing

How do I get rid of the other files that I installed from the website

Just delete them?

[gloomy nova]

Either rename the raylib directory to something else or delete it, yeah

[zealous oasis]

Does renaming it to raylib_1 work

[gloomy nova]

Yeah

[zealous oasis]

Yes the terminal is the console right

That's what I copied the whole text from

[gloomy nova]

Yeah. And do you know how to compile manually in the terminal?

And just generally, do you know what compilation is?

[zealous oasis]

No, I don't know how to run that g++ command

I don't know the syntax

I usually just click the run button and vscode does it for me

[gloomy nova]

Alright, and do you know what compilation is?

[zealous oasis]

Yes, the process of converting the code to machine language ik

I also know linker , it links your file with the library files

[gloomy nova]

Yeah, so the process of converting the C++ code you write (which is just text) to an app that you can actually run

[zealous oasis]

Yeah

Yea so compiler makes .obj or .exe files smth like that

[gloomy nova]

Alright. So if you type g++ main.cpp -o main.exe in the terminal, it will compile the file called main.cpp to create an executable named main.exe

[zealous oasis]

Okay

Well why does clicking the run button not good lmao

[gloomy nova]

Okay, can you try it on a hello world quickly? Without raylib for now

Clicking the button does the same thing. But you should first understand how to do it in the terminal, and then tell VSC to run the same command when you click the button. That's all tasks.json is, it tells it what command to run when you press "run"

[zealous oasis]

Ahh

I see

[gloomy nova]

So does it work?

[zealous oasis]

Yeah it says hello world

[gloomy nova]

Can you screenshot your terminal?

Just in case

[zealous oasis]

I am on phone rn

My laptop battery died can we talk about this later please

[gloomy nova]

So how did you send me that

Ah. Alright, ping me when you're back

[zealous oasis]

I just plugged it in haha

Thanks btw

This convo clarified that what the f is tasks.json

[simple turtle]

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[gloomy nova]

So you mean you can continue?

[zealous oasis]

@gloomy nova hello sire

here is the ss

[gloomy nova]

Ok, and do you know how to run the resulting app in the terminal?

[zealous oasis]

no hehe

is there a make keyword in cpp

i used to write make in C

[gloomy nova]

It should be ./"hello world", try it

And generally, avoid spaces in filenames, they can confuse some tools (like Make 😛 )

[gloomy nova]

Yeah, Make works for C++ too. But I'd avoid it for now

[zealous oasis]

[gloomy nova]

Nice!

[zealous oasis]

yay

[gloomy nova]

Now try that raylib program again

I gotta go, but g++ "hello world.cpp" -o "hello world.exe" -lraylib should just work

If this works, you can then use the same command in your tasks.json. This explains how: https://github.com/HolyBlackCat/cpp-tutorials/blob/master/tooling/articles/configuring_vsc_tasks.md

[zealous oasis]

are you gonna be back soon

[gloomy nova]

It should just work now

[zealous oasis]

Thanks a lot Sir

I express my tremendous gratitude

finally it works

[zealous oasis]

@gloomy nova hey you up

i got a question

[gloomy nova]

Yeah?

[zealous oasis]

i still have the red squiggl under the header file

but the code does compile successfully when i use your command

but i dont like that red underline, the editor shows it as an error in my code

also there is no autocomplete enabled

because of the squiggle

is there a fix for this

[gloomy nova]

I see. Follow this: https://github.com/HolyBlackCat/cpp-tutorials/blob/master/tooling/articles/configuring_code_completion.md

[zealous oasis]

hey i installed clangd and also did the disabling intellisense part after installing the extension

but now it doenst eve work for the standard C functions

[gloomy nova]

Mmm, please run pacman -Qe and show the output

[gloomy nova]

In msys2 terminal

[cunning gate]

im quite confused

their wiki explains how you set it up

https://github.com/raysan5/raylib/wiki/Using-raylib-in-VSCode for vscode and for whatever ide you want too

[gloomy nova]

Ah, I suggested the wrong package. You need pacman -S mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-clang-tools-extra

Then restart vsc

[zealous oasis]

yeah now it works

thanks!

btw is it always better to download all packages from the msys terminal instead of downloading the files from the internet?

[simple turtle]

@zealous oasis Has your question been resolved? If so, type !solved :)

[gloomy nova]

MSYS2 is way easier

[zealous oasis]

are all packages available on msys

how do i get the command to download them

i aint gon ask u everytime lmao

[gloomy nova]

Can't be "all" packages, only the things that msys2 maintainers have provided themselves

[gloomy nova]

pacman -Ss ... searches by package name, and I think pacman -F ... searches by contents

Most packages that you install should have their names start with mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-, for explanation see https://stackoverflow.com/q/76552264/2752075

[zealous oasis]

what does python mean

[gloomy nova]

The interpreter probably (python.exe that can run .py files)

But you don't want python, you want mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-python

[zealous oasis]

whats the difference

[gloomy nova]

The link explains that

[zealous oasis]

okay

thanks

[zealous oasis]

@gloomy nova ermm hello 👉 👈

I want to install raygui where can I find the msys command for it

[gloomy nova]

Use pacman -Ss raygui to search in msys2 packages. This prints nothing, meaning msys2 doesn't provide it

If you look through the readme, you'll see that the library is header-only, meaning that you just download it and tell the compiler where to find the .h, using -I

So something like g++ ..... -IC:/path/to/raygui/src

This will make it compile, but you'll still see the red squiggles. To make Clangd aware of this header, create a file called compile_flags.txt in your project directory and paste -IC:/path/to/raygui/src in there

I recommend reading https://github.com/HolyBlackCat/cpp-tutorials/blob/master/tooling/articles/using_libraries.md

This explains how to deal with completely unknown libraries

[zealous oasis]

so you mean download raygui from the internet

[gloomy nova]

yes

[zealous oasis]

btw can you tell me why replacing gcc with g++ in the tasks.json file worked yesterday

[gloomy nova]

gcc.exe is a C compiler ("gnu C compiler"), while g++.exe is a C++ compiler. But "GCC" also stands for "gnu compiler collection", which both are parts of, which adds to the confusion

When you apply gcc.exe to C++, it switches to C++ mode (so doesn't reject your code outright), but it fails to link the C++ standard library, which is what that error means