Switch board does not change anything

[ObligedTester]

Hello,

Recently found out about this vscode extension, seems like a fantastic upgrade to the eco-system!

To my question/issue:
I imported a copy of a project that I used with the SDK manually setup. It asked a couple of questions like SDK version and stuff.

All good, it builds fine and SWD working and so on, however, I wanted to try the feature of switching board to the pico 2.
Unfortunately, nothing seems to change. For example cmake outputs this:

[cmake] PICO_SDK_PATH is /home/user/.pico-sdk/sdk/2.0.0
[cmake] Defaulting platform (PICO_PLATFORM) to 'rp2040' since not specified.
[cmake] Defaulting target board (PICO_BOARD) to 'pico' since not specified.

I did delete my .build to make it as clean as possible.

Maybe im not using this feature correctly?

[will-v-pi]

For the switch board feature to work you need a set(PICO_BOARD… line in your CMakeLists.txt, which the extension then edits when switching boards - you can see an example of such line by creating a new project. We’re planning to add it to imported projects automatically, see #46

[ObligedTester]

Ah that is cool! So it is only for imported projects then?

Also, is there another trick to choose release/debug for imported projects? I'm experiencing the same issue as raised here:https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=374647

[will-v-pi]

Yes, this is only an issue for imported projects

To switch build type between release/debug, you need to use the CMake Tools extension integration, and then use the CMake Tools extension to do the switching - see the README for details

[ObligedTester]

Thanks a lot. This covers it for me.

Thanks for your help and fantastic work on this extension for the pico!