For anyone else coming across this post in 2021....

I found that I couldn't get the example code to work with reading files in VS Code until I modified the problemMatcher line in tasks.json to:

"problemMatcher": {

"base": "$gcc",

"fileLocation": [

"absolute"

]

},"

It was really driving me crazy so once I found a solution I decided to post it here. Still couldn't get the debugger to work but that's ok :')

Thanks for this helpful article!