Visual Studio Code IncludePath Issue with ROS headers

Question

I'm getting squiggly lines under the statements of #include "rclcpp/rclcpp.hpp" from the ROS2 tutorial I'm going through and updating IncludePath in c_cpp_properties.json is not fixing the issue.

Here's what my c_cpp_properties file looks like:

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "browse": {
                "databaseFilename": "",
                "limitSymbolsToIncludedHeaders": true
            },
            "includePath": [
                "/opt/ros/foxy/include/**",
                "/home/thomas/ws_ros2/src/cpp_pubsub/include/**",
                "/usr/include/**"
            ],
            "name": "ROS",
            "intelliSenseMode": "gcc-x64",
            "compilerPath": "/usr/bin/gcc",
            "cStandard": "c11",
            "cppStandard": "c++14",
            "configurationProvider": "ms-vscode.cmake-tools"
        }
    ],
    "version": 4
}

The ROS extension recognizes that I'm working with a ROS package so my settings.json looks like this:

{
    "python.autoComplete.extraPaths": [
        "/home/thomas/ws_ros2/install/warehouse_ros_mongo/lib/python3.8/site-packages",
        "/home/thomas/ws_ros2/install/moveit_msgs/lib/python3.8/site-packages",
        "/opt/ros/foxy/lib/python3.8/site-packages"
    ],
    "C_Cpp.errorSquiggles": "Enabled"
}

But no matter what I do I can't seem to get rid of these squiggles.

From this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37522462/visual-studio-code-includepath intellisense is only picking up system include paths, not IncludePath in the properties. — optical_anathema, Dec 30 '20 at 22:31

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 30 '20 at 22:41

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Removing configurationProvider from c_cpp_properties.json did the trick and intellisense is working now.

answered Dec 30 '20 at 22:41

optical_anathema

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Does anyone know what `"configurationProvider": "ms-vscode.cmake-tools"` is even for? – Eduardo Reis Mar 03 '23 at 15:21
Apparently it is to break intellisense – optical_anathema Mar 07 '23 at 23:10
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Actually, I believe that was added by a cmake extension I installed. – Eduardo Reis Mar 09 '23 at 02:26

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 09 '23 at 13:30

As a reference: I had the same issue but due to a different reason:

Turns out that in my case it was due to having multiple root folders in my workspace (through RMB and "Add Folder to Workspace...").

By copying the .vscode folder (with c_cpp_properties.json) to each of the root folders, it seems to be resolved.

Visual Studio Code IncludePath Issue with ROS headers

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