Installation of Visual Studio Code

The steps on this page may be ignored if a user-supplied code editor is employed in conjunction with the command line XTC Tools.

Install Visual Studio Code from https://code.visualstudio.com/download. V1.103.0 is the earliest version supported.

Windows

Use the VS Code click-through installer. Select the check-box Add to PATH to ensure it is available when using the XMOS XTC Tools Command Prompt.

Mac

Follow Apple instructions to install Visual Studio Code into the /Applications folder, typically under /Applications/Visual Studio Code.app.

Linux

Download the .deb package and install using the the apt tool. See documentation on this tool for further information.

Terminology

Visual Studio Code terminology is referred to in the remainder of this document. For details see: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/getstarted/userinterface.