Multi-target debug cwd configuration

My workspace is structured like so:

${workspaceFolder}
  |----- CMakeLists.txt 
  |
  |----- build/
  |
  |----- projects/
             |----- projectA/
             |        |----- src/
             |        |----- out/
             |        |----- resources/ 
             |        |----- CMakeLists.txt 
             |
            ... (3 more identically structured projects)

When debugging, I want CMake Tools to set the cwd to each project’s out directory because I distribute the files from resources/ to out/ and access them using relative paths.
The cwd is currently set to ${workspaceFolder} which means none of the resources are found.

I have tried putting this in each project’s CMakeLists.txt but it did not work

set_property(TARGET ${PROJECT_NAME} PROPERTY VS_DEBUGGER_WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR})

Any suggestions?

Edit: ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR} is set to ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/out in each project’s CMake Lists.txt

[bobbrow]

We can mark this as a feature request. In the meantime, you can use the cmake.debugConfig object to override certain debugger settings like “cwd” (current working directory).

cmake.debugConfig: {
    "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/projects/projectA/out"
}

This is not ideal for a project with multiple targets since you’ll have to change the cwd each time you change debug targets, but it can get you by until the feature is implemented.

[LeLuc4]

We can mark this as a feature request. In the meantime, you can use the cmake.debugConfig object to override certain debugger settings like “cwd” (current working directory).

cmake.debugConfig: {
    "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}/projects/projectA/out"
}

This is not ideal for a project with multiple targets since you’ll have to change the cwd each time you change debug targets, but it can get you by until the feature is implemented.

You can use the following in your settings.json without having to modify the cwd each time:

 "cmake.debugConfig": {
        "cwd": "${command:cmake.launchTargetDirectory}"
    },

However, this does not work for non-debug launches. Any ideas?