I can create new Pico 2 RISCV projects with the Raspberry Pico extension for VSCode.
Wondering if you have CMake CMakeLists.txt example that doesn't rely on the extension.
Dependencies on CMake, Ninja, SDK location, GCC toolchain are ok.
why? For projects I publish on github, I prefer that they are independent of IDE and OS
All of the above :). I've been trying to retrieve all parameters, settings, arguments that are set by the extension. And to dig into the CMake files that it includes.
I set the CMakelogging to Debug, both in the (working) Extension project and my own not-linking trial.
I guess I will eventually figure it out. But there's the hope that someone else already did 
Haven't tried yet 
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When I run my make file outside VSCode, I get success:
