From 70b107ca8bb7575bb5c7861b17788e217d12f71d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Hansen <alex@alex-hansen.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 11:49:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Improve diagnostic message when QIR codegen fails due to a
 runtime error (#809)

This change includes the error string from runtime errors in the pop-up
error dialog when QIR generation fails.

<img alt="image"
src="https://github.com/microsoft/qsharp/assets/12157751/4784f746-01ef-45cb-acdb-19939a0cbc18">


Closes #747
---
 vscode/src/qirGeneration.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/vscode/src/qirGeneration.ts b/vscode/src/qirGeneration.ts
index 02cba8b83a..69e56b323e 100644
--- a/vscode/src/qirGeneration.ts
+++ b/vscode/src/qirGeneration.ts
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ export async function getQirForActiveWindow(): Promise<string> {
   } catch (e: any) {
     log.error("Codegen error. ", e.toString());
     throw new QirGenerationError(
-      "Code generation failed. Please ensure the code is compatible with the QIR base profile " +
+      `Code generation failed due to error: "${e.toString()}". Please ensure the code is compatible with the QIR base profile ` +
         "by setting the target QIR profile to 'base' and fixing any errors."
     );
   } finally {