How do I install lldb-vscode？

[watjt]

hx --health
rust ✓ rust-analyzer ✘ lldb-vscode

I just finded this codelldb-x86_64-linux.vsix

[sudormrfbin]

lldb-vscode is used as a debugger, and debugging support in helix is experimental for now. You can find install instructions in the wiki. Related: #4048.

[watjt]

It has been installed. But not have auto-complete
✓ rust-analyzer

[watjt]

My development environment is intranet, so I use this package https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/releases/download/22.12/helix-22.12-x86_64-linux.tar.xz to install offline, is it because of offline installation?

[CalciteW]

Sorry, I don't know. I installed it with the package manager.

[CalciteW]

You can press <Space-k> on the variable to see if the document appears, if it doesn't, the LSP is not working properly

[CalciteW]

Try this #4737

[Quorsor]

I don't know if it's really the reason why it worked but I just used chocolatey to install LLVM and it somehow gave me a check. I was actually trying to install codelldb since I have nothing to lead me on where or how I can do lldb-vscode.

choco install llvm

OS: Windows 11
Terminal: Powershell

[jerhos]

Just wanted to put this here for visibility.
Chocolatey didn't work for me, but WinGet did:

winget install LLVM.LLVM

This also adds it to the path - of which I'm not quite sure if choco does this. You might want to restart the terminal before it's recognized.

[SmiteWindows]

ame i llvm
paru -S llvm
yay -S llvm
pacman -S llvm

[hackers267]

paru -S llvm doesn't work for me, But paru -S lldb works for me.

[David-Else]

I have never used pacman, please could you update the WIKI with whatever works, I was just copy pasting from the comment above.

[Familex]

pacman -S lldb worked for me.

[gaivenis]

@hackers267, paru -S lldb worked for me

[hackers267]

@David-Else Thanks, I had updated the WIKI about how to install the vscode-lldb for archlinux user

[HealsCodes]

for macOS (using homebrew):

brew install llvm
ln -s $(brew --prefix)/opt/llvm/bin/lldb-vscode $(brew --prefix)/bin/

The second line is required to get lldb-vscode into your homebrew PATH without exposing the whole lldb installation as it would clash with xcode commandline tools.

[abelcha]

btw if you have linked a llvm version greater then 16:
brew install llvm@16
ln -s $(brew --prefix)/opt/llvm@16/bin/lldb-vscode $(brew --prefix)/bin/

[nuke-web3]

For Debian/Ubuntu, I needed to install and further link to get things working:

sudo bash -c "$(wget -O - https://apt.llvm.org/llvm.sh)" # Instructions from https://apt.llvm.org/
cd $(dirname $(which lldb-17))
sudo ln -s lldb-vscode-17 lldb-vscode 

[David-Else]

@nukemandan I am trying to avoid installing nightly llvm on Debian 12. I tried sudo apt install llvm-15 but it does not seem to contain any permutation of lldb-vscode. Did you discover any lldb-vscode inside of any official Debian packages? Cheers!

[HealsCodes]

@nukemandan I am trying to avoid installing nightly llvm on Debian 12. I tried sudo apt install llvm-15 but it does not seem to contain any permutation of lldb-vscode. Did you discover any lldb-vscode inside of any official Debian packages? Cheers!

lldb-vscode is part of the lldb-15 package in stable as well as testing.
It's located in /usr/lib/llvm-15/bin/lldb-vscode

hope that helps!

[David-Else]

Thanks, brilliant, cheers!

[David-Else]

I added it to the WIKI: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/wiki/Debugger-Configurations#debian-12-users

[HealsCodes]

@David-Else - great job keeping the Wiki article clean and incorporating all the different Linux distributions as they pop-up.

I was wondering if we should grab some external reference like this one from Microsoft and copy some of the details the wiki is currently missing (as they have the major ones like Ubuntu/RHEL/Centos/etc)?

Getting all the various Linux distributions that might have a native lldb package under an umbrella feels a bit like fighting windmills these days.

[TadoTheMiner]

Any opensuse user here? How to install it for opensuse?

[HealsCodes]

same as for most other linux distros - install the lldb package.
For opensuse that's lldb15 / lldb16 / lldb17 depending which version you want

[TadoTheMiner]

same as for most other linux distros - install the lldb package. For opensuse that's lldb15 / lldb16 / lldb17 depending which version you want

But still I don't have lldb vscode

[HealsCodes]

lldb17 installs /usr/bin/lldb-vscode and /usr/bin/lldb-vscode-17 - the version matters

lldb18 does NOT come with lldb-vscode

(checked against lldb17-17.0.6-3.3.x86_64.rpm from OpenSUSE tumbleweed)

[YatesRocks]

I was wondering why zypper in lldb didn't work as expected on my machine, didn't even think that the newer version stopped supplying it. I should note, on my particular installation lldb17 installs into /usr/bin/lldb-vscode-17 only, so you need to symlink to ~/.local/bin/lldb-vscode or edit the Helix config with the full path for it to work

[giann]

brew install llvm does not give me neither llvm-dap or llvm-vscode

$ brew info llvm
==> llvm: stable 18.1.4 (bottled), HEAD [keg-only]
Next-gen compiler infrastructure
https://llvm.org/
Installed
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/llvm/18.1.4 (7,721 files, 1.8GB)
  Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2024-05-03 at 22:06:22
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/l/llvm.rb

$ ls $(brew --prefix)/opt/llvm/bin/llvm-dap
ls: /opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin/llvm-dap: No such file or directory

$ ls $(brew --prefix)/opt/llvm/bin/llvm-vscode
ls: /opt/homebrew/opt/llvm/bin/llvm-vscode: No such file or directory

Any idea why?

[HealsCodes]

two things come to mind:

• you're looking for lldb-vscode not llvm-vscode (the package is llvm but you want the debugger not the compiler)
• I noticed that many linux distros also stopped putting lldb-vscode into the llvm/lldb 18 packages so you might have to go back to llvm@17

[mversic]

you will find it in /opt/homebrew/opt/llvm@18/bin/lldb-dap -h

[giann]

Thanks. I was indeed searching for llvm-dap instead of lldb-dap 😩

[0x6c6d]

I had the problem today & fixed it with creating a symlink (suggested here: #9964)

lldb-vscode was renamed to lldb-dap, so most likely you will find /usr/bin/lldb-dap in your bin folder after installing lldb (version 18 or later)

This will create a symlink:
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/lldb-dap /usr/bin/lldb-vscode

[HealsCodes]

I had the problem today & fixed it with creating a symlink (suggested here: #9964)

lldb-vscode was renamed to lldb-dap, so most likely you will find /usr/bin/lldb-dap in your bin folder after installing lldb (version 18 or later)

This will create a symlink:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/lldb-dap /usr/bin/lldb-vscode

Wouldn't the sensible solution be to edit your helix languages.toml and tell it to use lldb-dap instead of relying on symlinks?

Feels odd to "fix your file system to match what your config file expects"

[0x6c6d]

yes, you're right. I could change my languages.toml based on this commit: b24c465

[bp7968h]

Hi, as of now lldb-vscode have been renamed to lldb-dap, so If you are in linux especially fedora then you can use the below command which installs it:

sudo dnf install lldb

Now this should be auto available in the helix configuration which you can check using the following command:

hx --health rust

Configured language servers:
✓ rust-analyzer: /home/bpandit/.cargo/bin/rust-analyzer
Configured debug adapter: lldb-dap
Binary for debug adapter: /usr/bin/lldb-dap
Configured formatter: rustfmt
Binary for formatter: /home/bpandit/.cargo/bin/rustfmt
Highlight queries: ✓
Textobject queries: ✓
Indent queries: ✓