Trying to get setup with VS Code. Also have several new programmers who I’d like to give some basics to (trying to setup HelloWorld.cpp, but I’m not even quite sure 
I got it going fine on OSX (thinking it is b/c you have to install clang with XCode), but can’t get it to compile on Windows. Most of the setups are suggesting having minw-64 installed…so maybe that is the solution, but I was trying to use the FRC toolchains install instead (was concerned both might cause other issues).
Below are my tasks.json and launch.json. A few unexpected things (for me at least). Build creates an a.out, which I worked on Mac, but was expecting a.exe for windows. I’ve played around a bunch with them…so don’t be shocked if there are some strange values…this was just the final iteration 
{
"version": "2.0.0",
"tasks":
{
"label": "build HelloWorld",
"type": "shell",
"command": "C:\\frc\\bin\\arm-frc-linux-gnueabi-g++.exe",
"args":
"-g",
"HelloWorld.cpp"
],
"group": {
"kind": "build",
"isDefault": true
}
}
]
}
{
"version": "0.2.0",
"configurations":
{
"name": "(gdb) Launch",
"type": "cppdbg",
"request": "launch",
"program": "${workspaceFolder}/a.exe",
"args": ],
"stopAtEntry": true,
"cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
"environment": ],
"externalConsole": false,
"MIMode": "gdb",
"miDebuggerPath": "C:\\frc\\bin\\arm-frc-linux-gnueabi-gdb.exe",
"setupCommands":
{
"description": "Enable pretty-printing for gdb",
"text": "-enable-pretty-printing",
"ignoreFailures": true
}
]
}
]
}