Windows10 Vscode configuration c++ environment (with MinGW download link)

Configuration method

There are many tutorials on FOR small white , but they are all uneven.
I want to write a complete summary for Xiaobai configuration

step1. Download Vscode

Download the vscodewin10 version on the vscode official website . Friends who use the Linux version are similar.
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step2. New file

Open vscode, then create a new file main.cpp, and then type the content

#include<iostream>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    
    
    cout<<"hello c++"<<endl;
}

As shown
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step3 install plugin

Then install the plug-in,
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then search in the search bar, install the following plug-in

Beautiful to beautify your compilation interface.
Chinese is to install the Chinese translation, so that the interface of the compiler becomes the Chinese version
c/c++ and code Runner is used when debugging. After installing this plug-in, there will be a triangle in the upper right corner for debugging. As shown in the figure: Insert picture description here
Click to run the program written by yourself, but the road has not been finished, and now it is impossible to debug, it will report an error, and then go down.

step4 download MinGW

Then go to download MinGW, you can go to the official website to download, directly search the MinGW official website on Baidu and download it according to the prompts.
Here I provide the download link of my network disk: Link: https://pan.baidu.com/s/1WWi5tX02qk0b-AGyv13Yxg
Extraction code: 8twc
After downloading, unzip it to the location you want-it is recommended to go to the c drive (to Remember the installation location).

step5 configure the environment (the most important step)

Then start to configure the environment, the steps are very simple. Just follow along.
1 Search for environment variables in the start menu bar to update your own system environment variables,
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then open the environment variables

and start to configure the environment variables. Copy your MinGW\bin location, remember it is the bin location, there are many tutorials on the Internet that include the location, this is an error of. Remember to

click on the bin to confirm. So far, the configuration of Vscode+c++ environment has been configured.

step6 test

Click the small triangle symbol to test before,
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and the configuration of vscode and c++ is completed.
I changed the output in the terminal here.

Then search for Run in Terminal and check it.