Installing and setting up Visual Studio Code (VSC)

1.- Go to https://code.visualstudio.com/, download the las VScode version and install it

2.- Open VSCode and, in the upper-left nav, click on the extensions section (4 squares)

Note

You can click in the Windows icon and search for it typing “vscode”

3.- Search for WSL and install the first option

4.- Close it

5.- Open the wls Ubuntu terminal

6.- Go to the repository folder: cd OOT/oot

7.- Type code . to open VSCode from that environment

8.- Go to the extensions section, search for C/C++ Extension Pack and install it

9.- Having all of that done, copy the content of this git file https://gist.github.com/krm01/7345ca80e0e7f6b083a0ea4e85515d4b

Git file

//(Content from 01/12/2023)
{
   "configurations": [
      {
            "name": "Linux",
            "compilerPath": "${default}", // Needs to not be "" for -m32 to work
            "compilerArgs": [
               "-m32" // Removes integer truncation warnings with gbi macros
            ],
            "intelliSenseMode": "${default}", // Shouldn't matter
            "includePath": [ // Matches makefile's includes
               "${workspaceFolder}/**",
               "src",
               "assets",
               "build",
               "include"
            ],
            "defines": [
               "_LANGUAGE_C" // For gbi.h
            ],
            "cStandard": "gnu89", // C89 + some GNU extensions from C99 like C++ comments
            "cppStandard": "${default}" // Only ZAPD uses C++, so doesn't really matter
      }
   ],
   "version": 4
}

10.- Go to VSCode and press Ctrl+N to open a new file

11.- Copy the content of the file there and save the file in /home/mega/OOT/oot/.vscode/c_cpp_properties.json

Note

You can save the content of a file pressing: Ctrl+S

Warning

In th example the path starts with /home/mega/. In your case, instead of mega, you must put there your Ubuntu wsl username, the one you defined the first time you opened it.