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@Civitasv, I faced a similar limitation. My executable was in build/bin/Debug/exec.exe, and it is supposed to produce a data.txt file.

When CMakeRun is invoked, it produces a file in the directory from which it was run and produces outputs in the same directory (root_dir/data.txt) which is undesirable.(root_dir ~$ build/bin/Deubg/exec.exe)

On VSCode, when CMakeRun is invoked, the executable is run from its own build directory by default: (root_dir/build/bin/Deubg ~$ exec.exe) thereby not cluttering the root_dir. The output files are in (root_dir/build/bin/Debug/data.txt)

I think a conditional default option to set this behaviour would be a good idea:..

-- const.lua

const = {
    ...
    cmake_launch_from_build_dir = true,
    ...
}

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Can you give a specific example? like the file structure of your project

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Yes of course. I am using this project by adding DefineGameProject(Test) at the end of CMakeLists.txt, running cmake once to generate it, then running nvim Projects/Test/Test.cpp. The workring directory would ideally be $(pwd)/Projects/$project/Resources, so each project can load its own resources, but it appears to be set to the path nvim was invoked from.

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@TheSunCat, commit : a23d98 from pull #47 fixes this launch from build directory. Since there are a few more proposed upgrades in #47, it might take sometime to get tested on linux and MacOS (currently I am testing on windows with MSBuild and MSVC).

Added default option:
cmake_launch_from_built_binary_directory = true,

Edit:

Note: This does not parse the CMakePresets.json to find a specific directory per target and then launch the executable or target according to that setting (Not sure if this is what is needed here, but I'm not sure if this is even necessary... theoretically there can be infinite possible customization here😃)

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@TheSunCat, #51 does this by default. You can now test this.

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