Pass command line arguments for "Run Without Debugging"

[DreamWaterFound]

I'm so sorry to bother you with this little question ...

I know how to pass command line arguments to a debug target, but when I executed CMake: run without debugging, I found no argument was passed to the target. Did I miss any steps?

I will be very grateful to you if this problem was solved. Thank you.

[bobbrow]

You did not miss any steps. This functionality has not been implemented. I will mark as a feature request.

[DreamWaterFound]

Thank you for your reply!

Should I close this issue now, or should I keep it open until this new feature is implemented? (Sorry, I'm not familiar with the process of open source software maintenance)

[bobbrow]

Please leave it open. We will close it when the feature is implemented or if we don't think we can get to it in a reasonable time frame.

[DreamWaterFound]

Thanks! 👍

[fatfatson]

still not implemented today?

[bobbrow]

Not yet. If you want to take a look at the code, we'd accept a PR.

[ahmedshakill]

I am new using github. I need this feature too. would someone please accept this PR. It would great help
#1201

[PLUkraine]

Is this feature still in scope?

[MartinMajewski]

This is a bummer! Running without a debugger is not that uncommon, isn't it?
Especially, since the ssh-remote debugger has still issues, running without it is common practice for me. Having no way to pass arguments on startup is a show stopper for this the cmake tools.

Any workaround for this?

[andreeis]

A good workaround is to use launch.json which can define program launch args and you can invoke the run without debugger via the command "Debug: Start without Debugging" in the pallette (as opposed to CMake: Run without debugging").
.vscode/launch.json
{
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations": [
{
"name": "(Windows) Launch",
"type": "cppvsdbg",
"request": "launch",
"program": "${command:cmake.launchTargetPath}",
"args": ["arg1", "arg2", "arg3"],
"stopAtEntry": false,
"cwd": "${command:cmake.launchTargetDirectory}",
"environment": [],
"console": "externalTerminal"
}
]
}

Regarding opened PRs, we are catching up on them this week. Thank you for your patience.

[andreeis]

CMake Tools 1.7.0 was released today and it contains a fix for this issue. Upgrade the extension in VSCode and let us know if you encounter any other problems.

[JodiTheTigger]

For anyone trying to figure out how to actually do this, you need to add the args array to cmake.debugConfig in your settings.json

"cmake.debugConfig": {
    "args": [
        "-first", 
        "-second"
    ]
 }

[neel]

@JodiTheTigger Thanks. But I have multiple targets. Different targets need different set of arguments to run. How can I specify that target specific arguments ?

[JodiTheTigger]

@JodiTheTigger Thanks. But I have multiple targets. Different targets need different set of arguments to run. How can I specify that target specific arguments ?

Sounds like a new bug/feature request to me. I've given up using cmake launch without debugger, and moved back to running manually via the command line.

[bobbrow]

If you have multiple configurations that need different sets of arguments to run and you want to save those to a file so you don't have to type them out all the time, the solution is to use launch.json. More information here.