Visual Studio Code include file not found in include directory (Windows 10)

Question

I am trying to get intellisense in Visual Studio Code. I downloaded the the C/C++ extension from the marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.cpptools and also installed MinGW with the packages mingw32-base and mingw32-gcc-c++. I added the MinGW bin folder to Path in my Environment variables.

When I add any include statement in my .c file, such as #include <stdio.h>, Visual Studio Code says:

Include file not found in include directory

Am I not configuring correctly? How can I get intellisense for C/C++?

Answer 1

As an expansion to wbmrcb's answer, I found header files under Windows Kits directory:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.10586.0\ucrt

Answer 2

On Fedora linux I added the following path where all my c header files lives.

/usr/include/**

to myc_cpp_properties.json file.

{
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "Linux",
            "includePath": [
                "${workspaceFolder}/**",
                "/usr/include/**"
            ],
            ...
        }
    ],
    "version": 4
}

Answer 3

I am using MinGW 8.1.0 and the C/C++ extension from microsoft, this worked for me -

{
"configurations": [
    {
        "name": "Win32",
        "includePath": [
            "C:/mingw32/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.1.0/include/c++",
            "C:/mingw32/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.1.0/include/c++/tr1",
            "C:/mingw32/lib/gcc/i686-w64-mingw32/8.1.0/include/c++/i686-w64-mingw32"
        ],
        "defines": [
            "_DEBUG",
            "UNICODE",
            "_UNICODE"
        ],
        "compilerPath": "C:/mingw32/bin/gcc.exe",
        "cStandard": "c17",
        "cppStandard": "c++17",
        "intelliSenseMode": "windows-gcc-x64"
    }
],
"version": 4
}