Download the appropriate Visual Studio for your development platform.
How to setup OSX based Microsoft Visual Studio Code 2 (vsCode2) for FluidNC Pendant development. This example was tested on a M2 Macbook Air running Sonoma V14.2.1
Download the latest from Microsof VSCode-darwin-universal.zip and unzip it.
Now copy the contents to your applications folder
cp -r ~/Downloads/Visual\ Studio\ Code\ 2.app /Applications
Ctl-Click on the applicaton "Visual Studio Code 2" so that you can open a non-verified app.
On the menu bar, click CODE->Check for Updates...
If it's stuck in readonly mode, you will likely get a link to a slightly outdated Read Only Mode Issue To fix this, exit the application and do the following. Note the slight change of the change extended attributes (xattr) command to reflect the vsCode2 application name.
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Visual\ Studio\ Code\ 2.app
Restart vsCode2 and ensure it can be updated.
Download the latest from Microsof VSCodeUserSetup-arm64-*.exe and unzip it.
Launch vsCode2 and ensure it runs.
I have not tested this myself
For working with various microprocessors with vsCode2 you need extensions that add the appropriate modules to the base vsCode2.
Proceed to Code->Settings->Extension and search for “PlatformIO IDE”
More details at [VS code Platform IO ESP32]((https://randomnerdtutorials.com/vs-code-platformio-ide-esp32-esp8266-arduino/#2)
Note: I also installed the "C/C++ Extension Pack".
Now use the vsCode2 github integration to load the FluidNC Pendant code base
Ctl-Shift-G
Enter the url for the FluidNC github Pendant code
https://github.com/bdring/PendantsForFluidNC.git
Select a directory to place it into.
From the left tab, click on the the PlatformIO button (alien head), then Pick a Folder PendantsForFluidNC, then select M5Dial_Pendant.
From the left tab, click on the the PlatformIO button (alien head) and a new menu with Project Tasks should be shown.
When you attempt the first build, the vsCode2 IDE will then use the platformio.ini file to configure the rest of the required development items. This is a one-time download.
Select the "Full Clean" then "Build"
On an M2 Macbook Air, a full clean build takes about half a minute.
Plug your M5 Dial into your development machine with a USB-C cable.
It's OK if you have not added the button hardware to the M5 Dial yet, but you will be limited in what you can do.
Select Upload and Monitor to connect to the M5 Dial over USB and to flash the newly built image. A new Terminal Window should appear in the IDE
and you should see various package information, dependencies, library and such scroll on the terminal. It will then attempt to connect via USB-C
to the M5 Dial and flash the file system with the new image. The M5 Dial should reset and flash up the FluidNC logo and then go to the start page.