Vscode-cpptools: includePath support for non-local paths `ssh://` in particular

[jdwieber]

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Describe the bug

• OS and Version: Windows 7 Enterprise
• VS Code Version: 1.25.1
• C/C++ Extension Version: 0.17.6
• Other extensions you installed (and if the issue persists after disabling them): SSH FS 1.9.2

IntelliSense fails to parse files provided by extensions that implement FileSystemProvider. In my case: SSH-FS https://github.com/SchoofsKelvin/vscode-sshfs/issues/27

To Reproduce

1. install vscode-cpptools
2. install vscode-sshfs
3. configure a remote directory in user settings
4. configure c_cpp_properties.js includePath to use the ssh FileSystemProvider

Expected behavior
IntelliSense should work as it does for local files

User Settings:

"sshfs.configs": [
        {
            "name": "home",
            "label": "jwieber",
            "root": "/home/jwieber",
            "host": "my.host.domain",
            "port": 1234,
            "username": "jwieber",
            "agent": "C:\\cygwin64\\bin\\ssh-agent.exe",
            "privateKeyPath": "C:\\Users\\jwieber\\.ssh\\id_rsa.ppk"
        },
        {
            "name": "repo",
            "root": "/path/to/my/repo",
            "host": "my.host.domain",
            "port": 1234,
            "username": "jwieber",
            "agent": "C:\\cygwin64\\bin\\ssh-agent.exe",
            "privateKeyPath": "C:\\Users\\jwieber\\.ssh\\id_rsa.ppk"
        }
    ]

code-workspace

{
    "folders": [        
        {
            "path": "./fdmdbsvc"
        },
        {
            "uri": "ssh://home/",
            "name": "SSH FS - home"
        },
        {
            "uri": "ssh://repo/",
            "name": "SSH FS - repo"
        }
    ],
    "settings": {
        "files.associations": {
            "*.ipp": "cpp"
        }
    }
}

c_cpp_properties.json

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Win32",
            "includePath": [
                "${workspaceFolder}",
                "ssh://repo/"
            ],
            "defines": [
                "_DEBUG",
                "UNICODE",
                "_UNICODE"
            ],
            "compilerPath": "C:\\cygwin64\\bin\\gcc.exe",
            "intelliSenseMode": "clang-x64"
             "cStandard": "c11",
            "cppStandard": "c++17"
        }
    ],
    "version": 4
}

[bobbrow]

We currently don't support URI syntax in the includePath nor any scheme besides file:// right now. Marking as a feature request.

[jdwieber]

Hello. I see in version 1.26 of VS Code that we can now open an URI as a folder. Does that bring us any closer to this being supported in cpptools? Thanks.

[bobbrow]

I'm sorry, at this time we don't have an ETA as to when this issue will be addressed.

[aosterthun]

Has something changed about this feature ?

[sean-mcmanus]

@aosterthun Nothing has changed. We should work with the various VS Code remote extensions that create a remote extension instance (i.e. use file:// instead of ssh://).

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