Brief Issue Summary

I have a workspace file that contains 3 folders, only one of them is a cmake project the second one is a cmake folder that gets included as external. autoSelectActiveFolder doesn't help me here since it might be that I don't have any file open at the moment that I open vs code and press the build button.

• main_project
  • CMakeLists.txt (includes add_subdirectory(../common EXTERNAL_COMMON))
• common
  • CMakeLists.txt (should not build, but cmake tools tries to, doesn't contain project())
• other_project (not cmake, but cmake tools still asks which kit I want to use)

Expected:

I would like to see that I can set the default active folder in my project, so that I know that pressing build will actually build the default project.

Apparent Behavior:

Depending on what cmake tools chooses, it might be that I get an error, because it cannot find a CMakeLists.txt or it find one in another folder, which is actually an external folder and therefore it is not a root CMakeLists.txt. You get an error that it cannot find project() for example. I just don't want this project to build at all.

Platform and Versions

• Operating System: Windows 10
• CMake Version: 3.16.0
• VSCode Version: 1.42.1
• CMake Tools Extension Version: 1.3.0
• Compiler/Toolchain: QNX custom toolchain