How to select working directory for cmake? "CMake: Select Active Folder" doesn't detect it

[Marqin (Marqin)]

My project structure is like this:

project-a
├── CMakeLists.txt
├── project-b
│   └── CMakeLists.txt
├── x
├── y
└── z

And I seem unable to select the CMake Tools extension to detect project-b.

When I use the "CMake: Select Active Folder" it lists only project-a and doesn't list project-b at all!

Is the only workaround to open project-b in separate VSCode window?

[Bob Brown (bobbrow)]

If you have two CMake projects in your workspace folder, you can specify both of them in the cmake.sourceDirectory in your settings.json file (VS Code settings) so that we know you want to work with both of them.

Example:

"cmake.sourceDirectory": [
  "/path/to/project-a",
  "/path/to/project-b"
]

You can also open both workspace folders in a single VS Code window if you'd prefer to do it that way.

[Marqin (Marqin)]

Thanks! That worked