Allow configuring the shell environment (in cppbuild tasks as well as compiler queries) about vscode-cpptools HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi @deribaucourt . I believe with the latest C/C++ extension prerelease (1.19.3 - which should be fully released shortly), it's currently possible to accomplish what you suggested as an alternative. If using a compile_commands.json file, and a compilerPath is set in your c_cpp_properties.json file, it should be used instead of the compiler specified in compile_commands.json, yet the arguments provided in compile_commands.json should continue to used. Note that we do plan to change this behavior in the future, to provide a separate setting for this purpose, as overloading the compilerPath field may prevent the base configuration from being useful as a fallback for files not found in compile_commands.json. Some discussion of that issue is here: #11889

We can also keep this request open to track providing a way to override the PATH and/or other environment variables in cppbuild tasks.

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Thanks for answering so quickly,
This compilerPath does perfectly fulfill my need!
Awesome, thank you.

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