Appendix

Appendix#

Manual download and install of the editor#

  1. Go to vscodium.com/#install.

  2. Click on Download latest release. You will be redirected to the GitHub repository of VSCodium. You will see installation packages categorized in processor architecture, operating system and package type.

  3. Scroll to your processor architecture, e.g., x86 64 bits, ARM 64 bits.

    • For Windows: download User Installer.

    • For macOS: download .dmg.

  5. Run the installation package. The default installation settings should work. When you finish the installation VSCodium should be launched.

Editing the environment variable path#

To add the LLVM binary folder to the path of your environment to make its tools available on every command prompt:

  • Windows:

    1. Open start menu and open Edit environment variables for your account. Environment Variables window should pop up.

    2. In User variables for user, edit the variable Path.

    3. Click New.

    4. Find the binary folder of the tool that you install and enter it, e.g., C:\Program Files\LLVM\bin

    5. Click OK. Edit environment variable window will be closed.

    6. On the Environment Variables window, click OK.

  • macOS: TODO, did not test

    1. Open a terminal. A terminal should show up with the current working directory set to your home folder.

    2. type:

      open .zshrc

      An editor should show up opening the configuration for zsh, the default shell program in macOS.

    3. Modify path variable by prepending it with the path that you want to add. For example to add /new/path:

      export PATH="/new/path:$PATH"

    4. Save the file.

Warning

Changing environment variables like path does not affect running programs. Restart the programs which need to see the path change.

VS Code telemetry#

VS Code sends data to Microsoft (also called telemetry) as default which can be opted out. In VSCodium telemetry is disabled.

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