You can set up tasks to run cmake for you: https://zed.dev/docs/tasks https://zed.dev/docs/tasks Personally, I just use the terminal for my build tools and Zed

You can set up tasks to run cmake for you: https://zed.dev/docs/tasks https://zed.dev/docs/tasks Personally, I just use the terminal for my build tools and Zed talks to clangd just fine for autocomplete etc.