I heard that clandg has better intellisense and autocompletion/lookup than the ms cpp extensions. Plus there is unreal-clangd extension. But I have failed to figure out how to generate the compile_commands.json on my Mac M1 Pro running Sonoma 14.5. I currently am running UE5.3 because 5.6 was gettin…

Does it have to be VS code? If you need to work with Unreal c++ projects on a Mac, i highly recommend Jetbrains Rider. I tried Rider on the Mac first, because working with Xcode is practically not possible. Now it’s installed on my other two Windows systems as well and i’m able to work on the same p…

Is it possible to set up VS Code with clangd on Mac?

Development Getting Started & Setup

Tayyab_Javed (Tayyab_Javed) August 5, 2025, 1:15am 7

This worked well for me along with clangd VS Code extension