Premake-VSCodeGen

Visual Studio Code workspace generator for Premake.

Supports GCC, Clang and MSVC through Make, Ninja or Visual Studio Solution file.

Note: For ninja you also need premake-ninja.

Usage

1. Put these files in a vscode subdirectory in one of Premake's search paths.
2. Add the line require "vscode" preferably to your premake-system.lua, or to your premake5.lua script.
3. Generate project files and then VSCode workspace

premake5 gmake/vs2026
premake5 vscode
premake5 vscode --[make, ninja, vs] --dbgtype=[cppdbg, lldb]

Options

• --dbgtype=VALUE: Specifies the debugger type used in the generated launch.json (default: cppdbg).
  • cppdbg: Use cppdbg from the official ms-vscode.cpptools extension.
  • lldb: Use lldb from the vadimcn.vscode-lldb (CodeLLDB) extension.

Note: For Ninja please use the Visual Studio Developer Command Prompt.

Limitations

Currently this generater only supports a single Premake Workspace.
This generator only supports C/C++, all other project types are ignored.

What files get generated

This generator will generate the following files:

• <WorkspaceName>.code-workspace (only if it doesn't already exist)
• .vscode/c_cpp_properties.json
• .vscode/launch.json
• .vscode/tasks.json