Configuring makefile tools

[jalanh11640]

I'm trying to configure makefile-tools to utilize our makefile wrapper to generate our configuration to be used by the C/C++ extension. I'm running into a couple of issues I'm hoping someone here can help me resolve

Generally, our application is comprised of many projects. Our makefiles require to be run in a "*.prj" directory. Here's a typical usage.

cd some.proj  
make_wrapper -config linux make objects

I have the following in my settings.json

    "makefile.configurations": [
        {
            "name": "linux",
            "makePath": "/workspace/tools/make_wrapper",
            "makeArgs": ["-config", "linux", "make", "objects"],
            "problemMatchers": [
                "$gcc"
            ]
        }
    ],
    "makefile.ignoreDirectoryCommands": false

This results in the following line in the Output window.
Generating configuration cache with command: '/workspace/tools/make_wrapper all -config linux make objects --dry-run --keep-going --print-directory'

This looks good except for two issues:

1. The target all is not a supported target in our Makefile. Is there a way to prevent the target from being used since I'm specifying the target in the makeArgs?
2. Is there a way to iterate through all of our project directories and have the command issued so that we get a full picture instead of just a single project?

Thanks!

[gcampbell-msft]

@jalanh11640 What do you see in the Makefile Tools project outline? I suspect that it's defaulting to the "all" target, and you could select the target you want there.

As for a way to prevent the target from being used, I don't believe there is a way, you could create a new issue for this as a feature request.

For question 2, there isn't a built-in way to accomplish this with the Makefile Tools extension. However, it's possible that you could create some tasks.json configurations to do this for you, but the Makefile Tools extension is designed to look at one project at a time.

Thanks!

[jalanh11640]

@gcampbell-msft

Thank you for the response! Yes, it is defaulting to all. Unfortunately, when I click on the pencil to change it, the only option it provides is the all target.

Any pointers for how to achieve #2 with tasks.json configurations?

[gcampbell-msft]

For number two there is lots of documentation on tasks.json, however, I'm realizing that there likely isn't any way to do this with our extension because you'd still have to manually select each project and/or configuration. However, you can always run tasks that use the command-line make.exe, but that doesn't integrate with our extension.

If you would like to see a feature for this, please create a feature request in the form of an issue, and we're always open to OSS contributions

[jalanh11640]

Thanks!