Vscode-cpptools: Setting C++ standard

[kostaskol]

I've recently started using VSCode (and the cpp tools extension alotng with it).
I've looked through the documentation multiple times but for the life of me I cannot figure out how/where to set the C++ standard.

I apologise if this has been asked (and answered) before, but no Google search came up with something relevant.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

==EDIT==
Actually I did some re-configuration to both my system and visual studio code and now it's working perfectly, thus I'm closing this question
Thank you very much for your help

[sean-mcmanus]

The setting is not exposed yet. We default to c11 and c++17, but our compiler doesn't support all the c++17 features yet. You could try changing the version used by modifying the ~/vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.cpptools-0.14.6/bin/msvc.json file which has a reference to the version to use (e.g. c++03, c++11, c++14, c++17).

[kostaskol]

The problem I had was that c++11 specific functions (i.e. std::stoi) where not recognised. Could this have been a fault in my setup?

[sean-mcmanus]

Yeah, sounds like your includePath/defines aren't correct (see https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-cpptools/blob/master/Documentation/LanguageServer/FAQ.md#why-do-i-see-red-squiggles-under-standard-library-types ). We should work with c++11 without any changes. What OS/compiler are you using?

[kostaskol]

I'm on Linux. I switched to clang in the settings but did not change anything else. I'll try with gcc and let you know. Thank you very much.

[bobbrow]

If you continue to have issues, please share the contents of your c_cpp_properties.json file so we can verify your configuration.

[kostaskol]

Still have the same problem. My configuration file is as follows

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Linux",
            "includePath": [
                "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.1/../../../../include/c++/7.2.1",
                "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.1/../../../../include/c++/7.2.1/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu",
                "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.1/../../../../include/c++/7.2.1/backward",
                "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.1/include",
                "/usr/local/include",
                "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.1/include-fixed",
                "/usr/include",
                "${workspaceRoot}"
            ],
            "defines": [],
            "intelliSenseMode": "clang-x64",
            "browse": {
                "path": [
                    "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.1/../../../../include/c++/7.2.1",
                    "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.1/../../../../include/c++/7.2.1/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu",
                    "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.1/../../../../include/c++/7.2.1/backward",
                    "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.1/include",
                    "/usr/local/include",
                    "/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/7.2.1/include-fixed",
                    "/usr/include",
                    "${workspaceRoot}"
                ],
                "limitSymbolsToIncludedHeaders": true,
                "databaseFilename": ""
            }
        }],
    "version": 3
}

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