vscode-makefile-tools/CHANGELOG.md

# What's New?

## 0.5.0
Improvements:
- Implement the ability to make various extension features optional and hide them from the UI. Initial examples: debugging an executable target and/or running it in terminal. [#290](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/290) [@jdmchp](https://github.com/jdmchp)

Bug fixes:
- Fix telemetry bug related to object settings. [PR #309](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/pull/309)
- Fix localize initialization logistics in launch source code. [#305](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/305)
- Fix regular expression used in processing the build targets ouf of the dryrun log. [PR #307](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/pull/307) [@DepthDeluxe](https://github.com/DepthDeluxe)

## 0.4.0
Improvements:
- Localization support for all strings used in titles and descriptions of settings, commands and various UI elements (popups, trees, buttons...).
  The messages in the output channel are not yet localized.

Bug fixes:
- Fix makePath: add "make" when only a directory path was specified. [#237](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/237)
- Activation problem when buildLog is used. Add missing linker. Fix bug when calculating binary targets. Use non deprecated VSCode terminal setting. [PR #256](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/pull/256)
- Keep the pre-configure environment when sending the launch target to the terminal or the debugger. [#295](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/295)

## 0.3.1
Bug fixes:
- Honor the "terminal.integrated.automationShell" setting when spawning make for configure. [#233](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/233)
- Remove the "build" button icon from other UIs than the main Makefile Tools panel. [#245](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/245)
- The build task fails for projects using -f or -C (makefile not in root) because of quoting. [#249](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/249)
- Fix activation for makefiles below the root. [#248](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/248)

## 0.3.0
Improvements:
- Generate compile commands. [#104](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/104) [@rapgenic](https://github.com/rapgenic)
- Support for problem matchers. [#7](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/7)

Bug fixes:
- Fix wrong extension activation for non makefile projects. [#181](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/181)
- Align defaults for C/C++ standard and IntelliSense mode to expectations in CMakeTools/CppTools. [#119](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/119)
- Fix parsing source file paths when in quotes. [#203](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/203)
- Don't show the Makefile Tools output channel automatically. [#115](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/115)
- Improve parsing of more complicated scenarios of quoting and escaping for -D and -I. [#169](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/169)
- Pass pre-configure environment to the build task. [PR #104](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/pull/239)
- Complete the parsing input text with what is outputted on stderr as well, besides stdout. [PR #238](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/pull/238)
- Fix paths processing for non-windows tools run on windows outside MinGW/CygWin environments. [#219](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/219)

## 0.2.2
- Fix pre-configure script invocation, broken on Linux starting with Makefile Tools 0.2.1. [#170](https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-makefile-tools/issues/170) [@avrahamshukron](https://github.com/avrahamshukron)

## 0.2.1
- Add new makeDirectory setting (global and per configuration level) as an extra location to search for the makefile and to generate "make -C".
- Fix the clean re-build for a project that has a default (empty "") build target.
- Various bug fixes regarding:
    - launch-targets/launch-configurations
    - quoting of files/arguments sent to shell when running executables or scripts
- Force English when running executables or scripts that need to parse English words from the execution output.
- Show the output channel only when something errors.
- Support compilers run through ccache.
- Use "shell" arguments convention when parsing compilerArgs for CppTools.
- Don't append the ".exe" extension suffix if the binary file already has an extension in the given path.

## 0.2.0
- Various bug fixes for MSYS/MinGW related to paths, strings, regular expressions and file system APIs
- Fix source file paths in the backtick pattern
- Fix cases of not finding an existing MAKE executable in the path
- Add new settings: makefile.saveBeforeBuild and makefile.buildBeforeLaunch
- Rename launch commands:
    - makefile.launchTargetPath --> makefile.getLaunchTargetPath
    - makefile.launchTargetDirectory --> makefile.getLaunchTargetDirectory
    - makefile.launchTargetFileName --> makefile.getLaunchTargetFileName
    - makefile.launchTargetArgs --> makefile.getLaunchTargetArgs
    - makefile.launchTargetArgsConcat --> makefile.getLaunchTargetArgsConcat
- Add new launch commands, that trigger a build when makefile.buildBeforeLaunch allows:
    - makefile.launchTargetPath
    - makefile.launchTargetFileName

## 0.1.3
- Activate in the presence of GNUmakefile in the root as well.
- Add ignoreDirectoryCommands setting for when the extension should analyze only the output of make -C
  and not commands written in plain, like cd, pushd, popd.
- Additional support for CCache, Libtool
- Initial support for common scenarios of backquotes in compiler/linker command lines.
- Fix bug when a .la library is considered executable for debug/launch.
- Change CWD for binary targets from the project root into the location where they are built.
- Repo compilation script changes
- Make sure the debug output is in focus after every debug command.

## 0.1.2
- Support suffixes/prefixes specific for version and cross compilers.
- Add the possibility to list only the makefile targets marked as .PHONY.
- Various bug fixes.

## 0.1.1

- Addressed feedback from 0.1
- Replaced the strategy for determining build targets and removed the giant log.
- Added settings for where configuration logs can be stored.
- Added project configuration caching to speed up subsequent session loads.

## 0.1

- Initial release
- Support for IntelliSense, Build, Debug, Run configurations.