How to use Borland C++ in VS Code?

Question

I have a Borland C++ command-line compiler. Is there any way to enable its toolchain in VS code to use Lint, Find Errors, Intellisense, etc? Is it possible to get it done without having a VS Code Extension for it?

PS: I KNOW that Borland C++ is a stone-age deprecated compiler. Anyways, I need to get a school project done and it would be very convenient if I could get it done using VS Code.

EDIT: I may have caused some confusion and apologize for it. The compiler I have is the Borland 5.5 command-line compiler tool circa ~1999 (and not the latest v10.1 C++11 enabled compiler).

Answer 1

bcc32 still does not have any extension to integrate easily with VSCode unlike gcc or CL, However, you can still configure it to use from the command line, bcc32 is fairly simple compiler to use from command line, so just write your code on VSCode, and then you have 2 choices, Either you use the VSCode terminal to run the compiler (for ex. > bcc32 main.cpp) Or you can edit the VSCode tasks file.

Here is a simple tasks.json file that should at least compile a main.cpp program (You can automate the build for a project through a make file, or even a batch file, and replace "bcc32 main.cpp" with this batch file.

{
    // See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
    // for the documentation about the tasks.json format
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "Build bcc32",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "bcc32 main.cpp"
        },
        {
            "label": "Run",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "main.exe"
        }
    ]
}