Documentation issues

[hackf5]

Summary

The launch.json fails to work for two reasons:

1. It expects 'miDebuggerPath' to be supplied even if gdb.exe is on the path.
2. The PATH environment variable is set incorrectly and this ends up blatting the variable entirely causing the debugger fails to launch.

Also in the quickstart guide you might want to suggest new users use MYSYS2 instead of Mingw-w64 as C++17 is completely broken in Mingw-w64 (https://sourceforge.net/p/mingw-w64/bugs/737/) and rarely updated, whereas MYSYS2 is actively maintained.

Platform and Versions

• Operating System: Windows 10
• VSCode Version: 1.45.1
• CMake Tools Extension Version: 1.4
• Compiler/Toolchain: GCC

Fixes

Modify launch.json:

"environment": [
                {
                    "name": "PATH",
                    "value": "${env:PATH};${command:cmake.launchTargetDirectory}"
                }
            ],
"miDebuggerPath": "Path to gdb"

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