Failing to work with GIT Bash

[bartmanabyss]

Failing to work with GIT Bash

[BartmanAbyss]

Hi. why did you need to modify tasks.json?
Do you have a 64-bit version of Windows?
I don't know why a installed GIT Bash would matter..
Did you just create a new project and tried to build? It should work out of the box.

[rafamiga]

OK, here's the situation:

I'm still using Windows 7 so I don't have built-in bash [vendor's version] hence I use GIT Bash. It works quite alright most of the time.

I all boils down to VS/plugin inserting paths in a usual Windows form, with the drive letter and a colon, like this:

C:/Users/rafamiga/OneDrive/tmp/amiga/amiga-1st/support/

Now, GIT Bash does not subscribe to this convention, it uses a Unix-like one:

/c/Users/rafamiga/OneDrive/tmp/amiga/amiga-1st/support/

That's the reason I had to modify tasks.json; instead of variables I had to use hardcoded filenames like:

"command": "/c/Users/rafamiga/.vscode/extensions/bartmanabyss.amiga-debug-1.0.0/bin/gnumake.exe",
"PATH": "/c/Users/rafamiga/.vscode/extensions/bartmanabyss.amiga-debug-1.0.0/opt/bin/;/c/Users/rafamiga/.vscode/extensions/bartmanabyss.amiga-debug-1.0.0/bin"

because variables here seem to adhere to Windows convention.

I'm sorry for not describing it adequately.

I think the example will work out of the box, it starts compiling but the show stopper is the path inserted to m68k-amiga-elf-gcc and I bet other script commands as well – they stick to Windows convention. I'm looking for a way to change it and hence my question.

Maybe there's a VS setting to change C:\ convention to /c/ or maybe it's a plugin setting?

[rafamiga]

OK, I did a little googling and found the same issue here:

microsoft/vscode#35593

Although there's no solution there, it's a good start to find the fix for my [and others'] problems.

[rafamiga]

OK, it seems this tweak in tasks.json does the trick:

[...]
 "version": "2.0.0",
   "windows": {
       "options": {
           "shell": {
               "executable": "c:\\windows\\system32\\cmd.exe",
               "args": ["/d", "/c"]
           }
       },
   },
       "tasks": [
       {
[...]

[BartmanAbyss]

Glad it works for you.