Ability to select more than one target

[andreeis]

For build targets, many repositories would require to invoke make with more than one target (when for example "all" is not wanted).
It would help to have a UI with multiple selection instead of the current quickPick.
Current workaround is to use "makefile.configurations[].makeArgs" to hook up any combination of targets.
Another workaround is to alter the makefile to define an intermediary target containing the desired combination and selecting that target from the quickPick.

For launch, this may very well serve as a testing framework for running suites of regression tests, as long as they are defined as build targets and run targets in the makefile.

[addisonElliott]

I'm using another extension that enables adding custom buttons to the status bar. My goal is to have buttons for each build target. See below with what I'm hoping for.

The problem is that this library doesn't let you programmatically build a specified target. I have a preConfigureScript and I'd like to reuse the existing terminal that's already configured. My thoughts are that you can update makefile.outline.buildTarget to accept an argument for the target and default to the current target otherwise.

Furthermore, maybe a new command called makefile.outline.buildSelectTarget (or something) that opens a quickpick menu with a list of specified targets. In my demo, I would specify the targets "test", "debug", "release".

[andreeis]

@addisonElliott, thank you for the ideas. We may not be able to implement them immediately but they align with what we also want to support in the future.

Regarding the preConfigureScript, once you run it, the effects on environment variables persist in the VSCode main process and will get passed further to any configure or build operation. Do you see that is not happening? If yes then it would be a bug that we'd like to investigate and fix.