VS Code Debug Extension for GDB

Note: This is a preliminary milestone release. Please help us by trying out this extension and providing feedback using our github issues page.

This is a Visual Studio Code extension that supports debugging using gdb and any other debugger that supports the MI protocol. It is built by the experts that provide the gdb support in the Eclipse C/C++ IDE (CDT).

This extension provides a number of features that integrate into the Visual Studio Code debug environment. This includes launch types, support for the standard debug views as well as a custom viewer for memory browsing.

Launch Settings

TODO

Memory Browser

TODO

Building

Building the extension

We use yarn to as our package manager. To build, simply do

yarn
yarn build

You can also run the build in watch mode using

yarn watch

Co-developing cdt-gdb-adapter

If you are working on the cdt-gdb-adapter you can check it out to a different location and then link it in.

From the cdt-gdb-adapter project run

yarn link

Then from this project run

yarn link cdt-gdb-adapter

You can set up a VS Code workspace that has both folders. Also make sure you have builds running in each folder to pick up updates.