Visual Studio Code no longer launches program

kitfox

Recently I had some strange issues with Windows 10 and had to run some programs to get my system working again. While my system is now working, it has had the side effect that I am no longer able to run or debug the project in Visual Studio Code. I don't know why and no error message is printed - when I try to run inside of Visual Studio Code, the program appears to compile and start but then just hangs without creating the desktop window.

I've upgraded to the latest .NET, double checked that Visual Studio Code has the correct packages installed and even recreated the launch.json file, but Visual Studio Code is still failing to launch the program.

Any ideas on how I could fix this?

Megalomaniak

Is it only in relation to godot or vsc hangs on startup irregardless of project?

kitfox

Visual Studio Code doesn't really have projects (unlike Visual Studio). It's more of a text editor with a lot of extensions - kind of like Microsoft's version of Emacs. I went through a tutorial and was able to get Visual Studio Code to compile and run a hello world project, but that was running in its terminal window. I don't know how you would run things via the run menu.

kitfox

I'm attaching my log files in case they're useful.

kitfox

After more fiddling, I realized that I needed to explicitly set the path to the Godot executable in both launch.json and tasks.json. After doing this, I was able to start my game in the Godot IDE and then Attach to it in Visual Studio Code, but I am still unable to launch from VS Code.

When I try to launch from within VS Code, this is printed to the console:

> Executing task: D:\bin\Godot_v3.4-stable_mono_win64\Godot_v3.4-stable_mono_win64.exe --build-solutions --path D:\dev\starling2\game\2021\DragondownMono --no-window -q <

Godot Engine v3.4.stable.mono.official.206ba70f4 - https://godotengine.org
OpenGL ES 3.0 Renderer: AMD FirePro W2100 Graphics Adapter
OpenGL ES Batching: ON
 
Mono: Log file is: 'C:/Users/kitfox/AppData/Roaming/Godot/mono/mono_logs/2021-11-17_03.12.16_3940.log'
WARNING: Scan thread aborted...
     at: _notification (editor/editor_file_system.cpp:1087)
WARNING: ObjectDB instances leaked at exit (run with --verbose for details).
     at: cleanup (core/object.cpp:2064)

Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.

PhilM

Play in editor suddenly stopped working for me the other night, after tearing my hair out I finally fixed it by reverting VS Code back to the Sep 2021 version (1.61). All my extensions came back exactly how I'd left them except that Godot C# tools was deactivated and needed re-installing. Might be worth a try.

kitfox

Downgrading to 1.61.2 got things working again for me. I've filed a bug report about this: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/55205

boruok

looks like downgrading also works for godot-tools extenstion, see how to downgrade

cybereality

It should work now. You just have to make sure the plugin is updated.

boruok

dunno why, but debugger doesn't works with code_1.63.0-1638855526_amd64.deb with all plugins installed and fresh Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS installation. steps to fix: 1. sudo apt remove code (this will remove code, but plugins will stay in system) 2. download and install code_1.61.2-1634656828_amd64.deb 3. sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade to upgrade code to latest version 4. profit

upd. clarify instruction.