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LLVM C++ Debugging in Visual Studio Code

I am having a lot of trouble getting the Visual Studio Code debugger to work for my C++ project. I know it isn't a popular IDE for C++ but XCode and Emacs are both equally unsuitable for me. I couldn't even get them to run my code.

I was wondering if anyone could share their .vscode configs that allowed them to use the VCS debugging menu. I would really appreciate it.

P.S. I tried following the tutorial here, but largely it has been unhelpful.

Solution

  • If you use lldb as the debugger and programming in macOS platform, the answer is quite simple.

    C/C++ extension dose not work well in macOS, so I suggest you use LLDB Debugger.

    If you have installed python through homebrew, you need do little additional settings following this issue (also there is a PR will fix this but now is waiting to be merged). Maybe you also need run pip install six if there is a warning in lldb output.

    Here is a simple config what i use:

    {
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "lldb",
            "request": "launch",
            "name": "Debug",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}/format",
            "args": [],
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}"
        }
    ]
}

    Hope I can help you.