Bundles and compiler not found if relocating CMAKE_BINARY_DIR

[stephane0]

I'm using CMake presets to setup a bunch of variables (ccache launcher, build type, toolchainfile, binaryDir).

My binaryDir is outside of source tree:

"${sourceParentDir}/build/${sourceDirName}/${presetName}"

And vscode configure fails to find arm-none-eabi-gcc, it seems that the process seeks the .settings/bundles.store.json to find the correct gnu-tools-for-stm32 but it fails since it look up cmake binary dir instead of cmake source dir.

Copying my .settings directory does fix it, but I have multiple projects lying on the same place and I don't want to mix their settings.

Is this an intended behavior or should the .settings files be searched in source dir instead ?

Thanks

[Julien D · Accepted solution]

@stephane0 Thank for this valuable feedback.

Yes having the CMake binaryDir inside the project tree is a constraint we have.

Similarly you must open a folder which contains the top CMakeLists.txt file of your project as another hard constraint.

Such may evolve in the future however as per of today we don't have other option.

[stephane0]

Ok @Julien D , thanks for the clarification.