when doing a clean build, you get an error message about "file not found CMakeCache.txt"

[MinnieTheMoocher]

When you do a REAL clean build,
i.e., you are completely DELETING the ./build subfolder of your sourcecode,
including all of its contents AND the folder itself,
and then are using your (nice!) plugin to launch a build without first launching
a manual "CMake: configure" command, then your plugin will display an error message
"file not found: build/CMakeCache.txt".
It would be much nicer if it instead could detect that either the folder OR that file
is not present, and in that case will automatically launch a cmake configure
instead of displaying that error message.

[vector-of-bool]

Hmm... Sounds like a problem. Could I get a more precise list of steps to reproduce the issue? I'll get on this one.

[vector-of-bool]

This behavior may have been changed/fixed in the 0.4.0 release. Could you try to reproduce the issue and confirm that it still occurs?

[MinnieTheMoocher]

the behaviour (with 0.4.0) is now that I get an error message which requests me to first configure the project.
It allows me 2 reactions:

• do that
• close

This means that the bug is gone and this issue could be closed.
However: may I convert the bug report into a change request?

I can not see a real good reason for that prompt.
Why not automatically launch the "configure" step, and then the build?
I can not see a usecase where I as a user would not want the "configure" step to automatically run.
If I really want to stop it, there is the "stop" button for me.

I would find it much more convenient if I could completely skip worrying about
the "configure" step, and instead just use "CMake: build" all the time
(provided that I have present proper user settings and/or workspace settings).

[vector-of-bool]

You're probably right. I've considered just removing that prompt. Usually, the only time I've seen it is when I accidentally strike the F7 key in a non-CMake project, and even then it will get caught on the current workspace not being a CMake project.

[vector-of-bool]

Changed in next release