VScode+fortls: #include not recongnized

[tommy-engels]

Dear all,

I have a problem that seems to be benign, yet I could not figure out the solution myself.

My FORTRAN code uses

#include "file.f90"

directives, rather than the fortran-build-in

include("file.f90")

because the latter does not feature preprocessor directives.
However, if I open the code in visual studio code, I get many "problem" messages that are related to fortls not understanding these include statements.

In particular, I have a module:

module hello
...
integer :: global_variable
...
#include "file.f90"
...
end module

and if I edit the file file.f90, VS studio complains that global_variable is not defined in the file.

I realize that fortls should be capable of dealing with this, but I don't quite know what could go wrong and where to look. I would be grateful for any pointer!