VS Code debugger on Windows

[photex]

Howdy!

The CodeLLDB plugin is very very slow on Windows unfortunately. However! The microsoft debugger works pretty well.

In order to use the debugger with dynamic bevy I'm using the following launch configuration:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "cppvsdbg",
            "name": "my_game",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/target/debug/my_game.exe",
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
            "request": "launch",
            "windows": {
                "environment": [
                    {
                        "name": "PATH",
                        "value": "${userHome}/.rustup/toolchains/nightly-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc/bin;${workspaceFolder}/target/debug/deps"
                    },
                    {
                        "name": "CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR",
                        "value": "${workspaceFolder}"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "preLaunchTask": "cargo build"
        }
    ]
}

In my tasks.json I have a build config called "cargo build":

{
	"version": "2.0.0",
	"tasks": [
		{
			"type": "cargo",
			"command": "build",
			"problemMatcher": [
				"$rustc"
			],
			"group": {
				"kind": "build",
				"isDefault": true
			},
			"label": "cargo build",
			"presentation": {
				"echo": true,
				"reveal": "always",
				"focus": false,
				"panel": "shared",
				"showReuseMessage": false,
				"clear": true
			}
		}
	]
}

If you change your toolchain then update these paths to match. Because Rust puts the hash into artifact names it was a bit of a mystery why something wasn't loading when starting the debugger. It turned out I was writing 'stable' instead of 'nightly' there.
What cleared that up was to open a visual studio dev shell and use the dumpbin program to see the expected dll names (dumpbin /DEPENDENTS my_game.exe) at which point I realized my mistake.