CMAKE Built task as root

[trolledbypro]

Greetings, I have several CMAKE projects (such as https://github.com/mavlink/MAVSDK) that require root access to build the project with the install target, as they install system wide into "C:\Program Files" and /usr/local/lib on Windows and Linux respectively.

Is there a possibility of having a feature where the CMAKE build task defined in tasks.json can have a "asRoot" option where the t ask can be run as root (and password entered as if you run a normal vscode task as sudo)?

[Zingam]

I think this is related to some other feature requests in cpptools and cmake-tools:
microsoft/vscode-cpptools#10863
#532
#352
microsoft/vscode-cpptools#3155

You should probably create a feature request ticket and comment and upvote the related once. I guess this could be generalized to execute the build/install as any user.

[gcampbell-msft]

Closing in favor of tracking the various issues linked above.