Issues setting up VSCode for homebrew development

[lowpolymario]

Hey all,

I am following Foxi4's guide to get set up on developing homebrew software for the DS. However, visual studio code is not allowing me to build files using the built in control + shift + b command.
I have used pk11's json config files for both settings.json and tasks.json.

The error states that...

make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.

and

* The terminal process "D:\devKitPro\msys2\usr\bin\make.exe '-s'" terminated with exit code: 2.

(Note: devKitPro is installed to my D drive, nds.h is found by vsc)

I am very new to this, so this is very likely a newbie mistake, but how can I get the program to compile?
Thank you in advance.

 

[godreborn]

Hey all,

I am following Foxi4's guide to get set up on developing homebrew software for the DS. However, visual studio code is not allowing me to build files using the built in control + shift + b command.
I have used pk11's json config files for both settings.json and tasks.json.

The error states that...



and


(Note: devKitPro is installed to my D drive, nds.h is found by vsc)

I am very new to this, so this is very likely a newbie mistake, but how can I get the program to compile?
Thank you in advance.

Is there a Makefile in that directory?

 

[lowpolymario]

Is there a Makefile in that directory?

Nope, that was it.
One last question, where did the built file go? Sorry, very new to vsc

 

[godreborn]

Nope, that was it.
One last question, where did the built file go? Sorry, very new to vsc

Depends. Most of the time it's on the root directory or in a folder named build.

 

[lowpolymario]

I am not seeing it, the build task is executing without errors but nothing is appearing.

 

[godreborn]

I am not seeing it, the build task is executing without errors but nothing is appearing.

Is it done?

 

[lowpolymario]

Is it done?

It says

* Executing task: D:\devKitPro\msys2\usr\bin\make.exe -s

* Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.

 

[godreborn]

Do you have a link to this project? I'll see what it does to me.

 

[lowpolymario]

Do you have a link to this project? I'll see what it does to me.

It's just a basic hello world project

#include <nds.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
consoleDemoInit();
iprintf("Hello World!");
while(1)
{
swiWaitForVBlank();
}
}

 

[godreborn]

You don't need vsc to compile. What happens in cmd prompt? You already did pacman -Syu nds-dev? Sounds like you already have. I don't know code, but I've gotten really good at compiling things for several systems.