Bob Brown

There are two extensions you can pick from right now. The CMake extension by twxs which you mentioned, and a new one [CMake Language Support](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=josetr.cmake-language-support-vscode). We received complaints about this...

Can you tell us which compiler are you using and which system paths are missing? I'm wondering why the compiler doesn't report the necessary paths to cpptools when it queries...

(some notes for us) Doing some tests, it appears that when added in CMakeLists.txt as in the first message in this thread, the implicit paths appear in the 'toolchains' json...

It should be safe to send these extra paths to cpptools for IntelliSense purposes. Duplicates will be automatically removed.

Thank you for your suggestion. We do prompt to remove Kits that have an explicit compiler path when that path is no longer valid, but we don't store compiler paths...

> Is there a way to manually remove dead entries? You can remove dead entries by running the `CMake: Edit User-Local CMake Kits` command. This will open the json file....

I'm not sure I totally understand what you are trying to do, but if you are using [CMakePresets.json](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-presets.7.html#format), you should be able to use the `environment` section to add the...

CMake describes a build system and doesn't generally understand runtime necessities. Correct me if I misunderstood, but this issue appears to be about runtime (debug) configuration. You can use the...

> But maybe it should be possible to query variables in the cmake-cache from the launch-files used during debugging? Which variables? We talked about `PATH` earlier and you can actually...

Sorry for the silence on this. We will re-evaluate for 1.13 after 1.12 is published.