Vscode-cpptools: code formatting not working on multiple archlinux workstations

[acauquil]

• VSCode Version: Code 1.19.1 (0759f77, 2017-12-19T09:41:01.414Z)
• OS Version: Linux 4.14.6-1-ARCH
• Extensions: ms-vscode.cpptools 0.14.5, austin.code-gnu-global 0.2.2

I'm having an issue when trying to format .c and .cpp files. No indentation is happening, thus working on javascript and all other languages I tested. Same issue for a coworker with the same up-to-date archlinux install. Tried multiple reinstallations and other packages (visual-studio-code-bin, code, code-git). No relevant settings.json or c_cpp_properties.json parameter used.

[sean-mcmanus]

You're using Format Document, right? We rely on clang-format to do formatting. Does /home/user/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.cpptools-0.14.5/LLVM/bin/clang-format --version output the version for you? You're using 1 workspace root folder, right?

[acauquil]

Hi, thanks for your fast answer. The issue was that clang-format uses libtinfo and it was not installed in my system.

[minhng99]

install package ncurses5-compat-libs on aur fixed it for me

[nopyhe]

When formatting:

/home/user/.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.cpptools-0.16.1/bin/../LLVM/bin/clang-format: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

clang-format need libtinfo.so.5 which is not in my system.

$ ls /lib/ | grep libtinfo
libtinfo.so
libtinfo.so.6

@SandPox package ncurses5-compat-libs in aur fixed it.

[marciopamplona]

Same here, using Manjaro Arch Linux.
Installing the package ncurses5-compat-libs fixed it.

[pfeerick]

Doing a sudo apt install libtinfo5 on Ubuntu 18.10 fixed it for me... must have broken something when removing unused packages / changing DE.

[gagandaroach]

April 8th, 2019

@minhng99 huge shoutout! working fix for me on manjaro / arch linux.
note: i had to pull the ncurses5-compat-libs package from aur.

[GiuseppeCesarano]

Guys don't download rnd shit from AUR if you have libtinfo.so.6.
Run: ls /lib/ | grep libtinfo.
if you can see libtinfo.so.6 then run:
sudo link /lib/libtinfo.so.6 /lib/libtinfo.so.5

[pfeerick]

Random, eh? I don't think so. libtinfo5 is the shared library for ncurses v5, as opposed to libtinfo6 to match ncurses v6. However, if linking to the wrong version if you have it installed already works for you, you could have simply said that.

[GiuseppeCesarano]

Okay i did check the AUR installer, it pulls the files from the GNU ftp server, so isn't random shit. That being said, i checked the ncurses's releases notes and v6 is backwards compatible with v5, so it's still better create a system link instead of installing an older version of the same lib. Sorry i never feel confident using the AUR if i don't check the installer.