allow building and debugging RetroArch from Visual Studio code automatically on a MINGW64 (MSYS2) installation

this works if MSYS2 is installed in the default path

allow building RetroArch from the command pallete

Allow building, and starting RetroArch via vscode Tasks

use 3 whitespaces for tabs

.vscode/launch.json

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+{
+   // Use IntelliSense to learn about possible attributes.
+   // Hover to view descriptions of existing attributes.
+   // For more information, visit: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=830387
+   "version": "0.2.0",
+   "configurations": [
+      {
+         "name": "MINGW64 (MSYS2) debug",
+         "type": "cppdbg",
+         "request": "launch",
+         "program": "${workspaceFolder}/retroarch.exe",
+         "args": [],
+         "stopAtEntry": false,
+         "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
+         "environment": [],
+         "externalConsole": true,
+         "MIMode": "gdb",
+         "miDebuggerPath": "c:\\msys64\\mingw64\\bin\\gdb.exe",
+         "setupCommands": [
+            {
+               "description": "Enable pretty-printing for gdb",
+               "text": "-enable-pretty-printing",
+               "ignoreFailures": true
+            }
+         ]
+      }
+   ]
+}

.vscode/settings.json

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+{
+   "terminal.integrated.shell.windows":    "C:\\msys64\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe",
+   "terminal.integrated.env.windows": {
+      "PATH": "/mingw64/lib/ccache/bin:/mingw64/lib/ccache/bin:/mingw64/lib/ccache/bin:/mingw64/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH",
+      "MSYSTEM": "MINGW64",
+   },
+   "terminal.integrated.cursorBlinking": true,
+
+   "editor.tabSize": 3,
+   "editor.renderWhitespace": "all",
+   "editor.insertSpaces": true,
+}

.vscode/tasks.json

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+{
+   // See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
+   // for the documentation about the tasks.json format
+   "version": "2.0.0",
+   "tasks": [
+      {
+         "taskName": "Build",
+         "type": "shell",
+
+         "group": {
+            "kind": "build",
+            "isDefault": true },
+
+         "command": "./configure; make -j2",
+         "options": {
+            "shell": {
+               "executable": "C:\\msys64\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe",
+               "args": [
+                  "-c"
+               ]
+            }
+         }
+      }
+      {
+         "taskName": "Build with debugging symbols",
+         "type": "shell",
+
+         "group": "build",
+
+         "command": "./configure; DEBUG=1 make -j2",
+         "options": {
+            "shell": {
+               "executable": "C:\\msys64\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe",
+               "args": [
+                  "-c"
+               ]
+            }
+         }
+      }
+      {
+         "taskName": "Build without reconfiguring",
+         "type": "shell",
+
+         "group": "build",
+
+         "command": "make -j2",
+         "options": {
+            "shell": {
+               "executable": "C:\\msys64\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe",
+               "args": [
+                  "-c"
+               ]
+            }
+         }
+      }
+      {
+         "taskName": "Clean",
+         "type": "shell",
+
+         "group": "build",
+
+         "command": "make clean",
+         "options": {
+            "shell": {
+               "executable": "C:\\msys64\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe",
+               "args": [
+                  "-c"
+               ]
+            }
+         }
+      }
+      {
+         "taskName": "Start",
+         "type": "shell",
+
+         "group": {
+            "kind": "test",
+            "isDefault": true },
+
+         "command": "./retroarch -v",
+         "options": {
+            "shell": {
+               "executable": "C:\\msys64\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe",
+               "args": [
+                  "-c"
+               ]
+            }
+         }
+      }
+   ]
+}