SEGA_VSCode_Template

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== Setting up SGDK with Visual Studio Code

This small project will help to setup a working environment (tested in Windows) for Sega Mega Drive developing with SGDK toolchain and Visual Studio Code as prefered editor. Visual Studio Code will be setup with c/cpp code extension and tasks to build and clean the workspace.

=== Prerequisites

. Download link:https://github.com/Stephane-D/SGDK[SGDK] . Download link:https://code.visualstudio.com/[Visual Studio Code]

=== Setup

• Extract SGDK to a prefered directory.
• Create an environment variable GDK pointing to the SGDK directory (e.g. "C:/dev/sgdk").
• Install Visual Studio Code.
• Install the following extensions in vsCode: C/C++ for Visual Studio Code
• Clone this github repo: git clone https://github.com/pleft/SEGA_VSCode_Template.git.

=== Usage

• Open VSCode and File->Open Folder... and choose the folder of the checked out repository.
• Folder .vscode contains two files: c_cpp_properties.json and tasks.json
  • In c_cpp_properties.json it is added the include folder of the SGDK: "includePath": ["${GDK}/inc"]
  • In tasks.json there are 2 tasks to help build and clean the project, make and clean.
    • To run make task press Ctrl-Shift-B.
    • To run make or clean press Ctrl-P then write task make or task clean.