TIBCO Flogo Snippet - Install VSCode Extension on Windows

Preface

The TIBCO Flogo Snippet series of articles aims to provide a quick reference guide on very specific subjects frequently brought up around the use of TIBCO Flogo in order to better speed up the use of this technology.

Installing VSCode Extension on Windows

1) Download and install the latest version of go from https://go.dev/dl/ (at the time of this writing is 1.22.5). Verify installation by opening a command prompt window and executing “go version”.

2) Download and install Visual Studio Code 1.90.2 from https://update.code.visualstudio.com/1.90.2/win32-x64/stable

Change the setting

File > Preferences > Settings > Application > Update >

Enable Windows Background Updates: Uncheck

Mode: None

Note: As of this writing, Flogo VSCode extension 1.0.0 cannot work with Visual Studio Code version later than 1.90.x.Visual Studio Code by default tries to auto upgrade you to the latest version. Verify that you are still on version 1.90.x by going to Help > About

3) Login to TIBCO Platform Control Plane and go to Downloads to download TIBCO Flogo® Extension for Visual Studio Code.

4) Start Visual Studio Code (using Run as administrator) and click on Extensions icon on the left. Select “...” and “Install from VSIX…” and select the “flogo-win32-x64-1.0.0-276.vsix” that was downloaded previously.

5) (Optional) This step is relevant only if you are using connectors such as Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, MySQL Database, Microsoft SQLServer, or Amazon Redshift. Otherwise, this step can be skipped. It is advisable to only install what you need to keep things light.

Do note that this step requires the current user to have Administrator privileges. On the screen asking you to Install Prerequisites for Flogo Connectors. Select the checkbox and click on Install Prerequisites. Then select the prerequisites that you need and click on OK.

6) (Optional) For some connectors such as for Apache Pulsar, you might get a compilation error like “ cgo: C compiler "gcc" not found: exec: "gcc" ”. To allow this, you can install TDM GCC. Download and install tdm64-gcc-10.3.0-2.exe for 64-bit windows from https://jmeubank.github.io/tdm-gcc/ . Then add the environment variable CGO_ENABLED set to 0. 

Additional documentation on Flogo VSCode Extension and Flogo Enterprise can be accessed here.

https://docs.tibco.com/pub/flogo-vscode/1.0.0/doc/html/Default.htm

https://docs.tibco.com/products/tibco-flogo-enterprise