cpptools shipping their own LLVM?

[igel-kun]

I noticed that my ~/.vscode/extensions became huge after upgrading from 1.15 and it looks like most of it (250MB) is below something called LLVM. Do cpptools install an instance of LLVM? Can I somehow teach it to use my installed gcc instead? I really don't care much for LLVM and I kinda liked those 250MB that are gone now, not to mention that my dotfile-backups become enormous out of a sudden...

cheers

[bobbrow]

Hi @igel-kun,
We redistribute clang-format and clang-tidy with the extension to ensure that our code formatting and code analysis features work. Full LLVM would be several GB. What platform are you using though? The biggest I see these binaries getting is on 64-bit linux at about 136MB.

[igel-kun]

Hi & thanks for the reply :)
I'm on ubuntu x64 and you're right, the clang-part of cpptools is "only" 128MB; the whole extension went up to 285MB for me, that was what I was looking at. Is there some way to opt out of the clang parts? I'm not using either of them.

[bobbrow]

We don't currently have a way to opt out of the clang parts. The VS Code Marketplace doesn't provide a way for us to add/remove pieces of the extension based on "some criteria". If you don't use them, you could probably write a script that deletes them whenever you install a new update. VS Code will complain at you when the contents of the extension folder change, but it shouldn't break anything for you.