nixos/vscode: Disable symbol stripping for VSCode

[sandy081]

Nixpkgs version

• Stable (24.11)

Describe the bug

Extension signature verification in VS Code package from NixOS is failing with SIGSYS error code. This is because the debug symbols are being stripped while packaging VS Code in NixOS. Based on the dotnet issue dotnet/runtime#37334 (comment) , it seems self contained dotnet executables cannot be stripped. For more details refer to this issue -

microsoft/vscode#223455

Steps to reproduce

• Install VS Code from NixOS
• Install any extension
  🐛 It fails with an error

Expected behaviour

Installing an extension should succeed

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[elikoga]

Simply setting dontStrip = false; does not help, I suspect patchElf in the fixup phase is interfering somehow: microsoft/vscode#239579 (comment)

[elikoga]

@eadwu @Synthetica9 @bobby285271 @JohnRTitor @JeffLabonte I didn't make progress on this further than what is already outlined and linked here.

This issue is rather a "vscode is completely broken" issue. I believe it's somewhat related to patchElf and the fixup phase

[elikoga]

I actually only experienced this with insiders yet, did not replicate with commited changes

[JohnRTitor]

So, as I understand it, you have only experienced this on Insiders build and with the dotnet extension.

Do you encounter the error when installing or when running/using the dotnet extension?

Could you check if it works with the release version of VSCode?

And also try using the dotnet extension packaged on Nixpkgs (you can search the wiki on how to do that).

Lastly try these steps with the vscode-fhs if the solutions above do not help.

[samchouse]

It's not an issue with the dotnet extension installed within VSCode, it's an issue with symbol stripping and the native code (written in dotnet) that verifies all extension signatures from what I understand.

I have the same issue on Insiders which I presume will come to Stable once it is merged in. All extensions throw this error and this prevents things like extensions autoupdating.

[JohnRTitor]

Indeed. 1.100 suffers from this incident. I wonder if installing extensions from nixpkgs work.