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InstallationGuide-for-C onVSCode

This document provides instructions for setting up a C++ development environment on Windows using Visual Studio Code and MinGW compiler. It details downloading and installing VS Code and MinGW, adding MinGW to the system PATH, installing the C/C++ extension in VS Code, creating a simple "Hello World" C++ program, and running and debugging it.

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InstallationGuide-for-C onVSCode

This document provides instructions for setting up a C++ development environment on Windows using Visual Studio Code and MinGW compiler. It details downloading and installing VS Code and MinGW, adding MinGW to the system PATH, installing the C/C++ extension in VS Code, creating a simple "Hello World" C++ program, and running and debugging it.

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1. Download and install Visual Studio Code from https://code.visualstudio.

com/

2. Install a compiler (MinGW-x64)

- Download MinGW from https://github.com/msys2/msys2-installer/releases/download/2022-06-


03/msys2-x86_64-20220603.exe
- Install the full Mingw-w64 toolchain (pacman -S --needed base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-
toolchain)

- Add the path to your Mingw-w64 bin folder to the Windows Path environment variable.
- Check your MinGW installation
(g++ --version, gcc –version, gdb –vesion)

3. Install the extension for C/ C++

- Open VS Code
- Select the Extensions view icon on the Activity bar
- Search for 'C++'

- Select C/C++
- Click ‘Install’
4. Running a simple Hello World C++ program

- Click ‘Open Folder’


- Select the folder you created (eg: Workspace_C++)
- Click ‘Yes, I trust the authors’
- Click New File icon and give the name ‘helloworld.cpp’
- Write these lines

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
cout << "Hello World";
return 0;
}

- Click ‘Run Build Task’ from Terminal menu (or) Run C/C++ file icon on the bar.
- Choose ‘C/C++, g++.exe build and debug active file’
- Click ‘Run C/C++ file’ icon on the bar
(or)
- From a new VS Code Integrated Terminal, you can now run your program by typing ".\
helloworld".

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