Setting up SGDK with Visual Studio Code

This small project will help to setup a working environment (tested in Windows) for Sega Mega Drive developing with SGDK toolchain and Visual Studio Code as prefered editor. Visual Studio Code will be setup with c/cpp code extension and tasks to build and clean the workspace.

Prerequisites

1. Download SGDK

2. Download Visual Studio Code

Setup

• Extract SGDK to a prefered directory.

• Create an environment variable GDK pointing to the SGDK directory (e.g. "C:/dev/sgdk").

• Install Visual Studio Code.

• Install the following extensions in vsCode: C/C++ for Visual Studio Code

• Clone this github repo: git clone https://github.com/pleft/SEGA_VSCode_Template.git.

Usage

• Open VSCode and File→Open Folder…​ and choose the folder of the checked out repository.

• Folder .vscode contains two files: c_cpp_properties.json and tasks.json

• In c_cpp_properties.json it is added the include folder of the SGDK: "includePath": ["${GDK}/inc"]

• In tasks.json there are 2 tasks to help build and clean the project, make and clean.

  • To run make task press Ctrl-Shift-B.

  • To run make or clean press Ctrl-P then write task make or task clean.