Setting the current working directory in launch.json

[sdegrande]

I can not find a way to set the cwd to be used during debug.
The "cwd" property in launch.json is not allowed...

[sdirix]

Hi @sdegrande,

What exactly are you trying to configure? CDT Cloud Blueprint contains a simple CMake example for which we also provide a (debug) launch configuration. For this simple scenario it's enough to specify the program to debug.

To examine all configuration options for the CDT Cloud CDT GDB Adapter, see here.

[sdegrande]

As far as I can tell (by printing std::filesystem::current_path() in my code), when I start a debugging session, the cwd is my home dir (I'm running on Linux Fedora 38).
For some installation reasons, my program is looking for its asset files relatively to the cwd, and so it has to be ${workingFolder}.
With Eclipse a working directory can be defined in a debug configuration.
It seems to not (yet ?) be possible with cdt-cloud.

[jonahgraham]

There is an enhancement request to add support for current working directory of the inferior. Please see eclipse-cdt-cloud/cdt-gdb-adapter#90

Patches welcome!

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In the meantime you can add a custom command to initCommands - perhaps something like cd /path/to/desired/current/working/directory

[sdegrande]

Works well, thanks !

[jonahgraham]

Great. Glad to hear it!