I have a project that I am not in control of the file structure. The file structure contains project files for different operating systems, and I am expect to make it work with linux (the code is portable).

The project’s structure is like this:

/Project
    /Windows (Visual Studio project files)
    /OSX (XCode project files)
    /iPhone (XCode project files)
    /Android (Android studio project files)
/Resources (app's resources)
/Source (All the cpp source code)

…I am wanting to add

 /Project
    /Linux
       /.vscode
       cmakelists.txt

into the project structure. Using VSCode, if I have cmakelists.txt open and hit ctrl-F5 to compile/debug, it works. But if I have a cpp or other file open and hit ctrl-F5, it tries to compile ONLY the file I have open and errors out.

Is there some way to say “ctrl-F5 ALWAYS goes to the cmake file”? I have tried to tweak settings.json without luck, but I’m VERY new to VSCode and I need help making the paradigm shift.