gf VS cortex-debug

Oh! It's the person who made gf, the gdb frontend: https://github.com/nakst/gf

Small world.

A debugger can be really useful. (This one is good for linux: https://github.com/nakst/gf remedybg is good for windows)

Though I use Linux, so there isn't a lot of good debuggers, but I have found gf which is a GDB front-end for Linux, and it seams to work well.

Clion and vscode are decent. I've also heard good things about https://github.com/nakst/gf

I like gf (gdb frontend) https://github.com/nakst/gf

Recommend https://github.com/nakst/gf, extremely fast since it doesn't require it's frontend to run in your web browser.

Cortex-Debug: VSCode debugger extension version 1.10.0 git(cf1c296). Usage info: https://github.com/Marus/cortex-debug#usage Reading symbols from arm-none-eabi-objdump --syms -C -h -w /home/smith/Documents/gpio_int_test/build/zephyr/zephyr.elf Reading symbols from arm-none-eabi-nm --defined-only -S -l -C -p /home/smith/Documents/gpio_int_test/build/zephyr/zephyr.elf Launching GDB: arm-none-eabi-gdb -q --interpreter=mi2 IMPORTANT: Set "showDevDebugOutput": "raw" in "launch.json" to see verbose GDB transactions here. Very helpful to debug issues or report problems Error: arm-none-eabi-nm failed! statics/global/functions may not be properly classified: Error: spawn arm-none-eabi-nm ENOENT Expecting `nm` next to `objdump`. If that is not the problem please report this. Error: objdump failed! statics/globals/functions may not be properly classified: Error: spawn arm-none-eabi-objdump ENOENT ENOENT means program not found. If that is not the issue, please report this problem.Launching gdb-server: /home/smith/openocd/src/openocd -c "gdb_port 50000" -c "tcl_port 50001" -c "telnet_port 50002" -s /home/smith/openocd/tcl -f /home/smith/.vscode/extensions/marus25.cortex-debug-1.10.0/support/openocd-helpers.tcl -f /interface/jlink.cfg -f /target/rp2040.cfg Please check TERMINAL tab (gdb-server) for output from /home/smith/openocd/src/openocd Finished reading symbols from objdump: Time: 11 ms Finished reading symbols from nm: Time: 9 ms Failed to launch OpenOCD GDB Server: Error: spawn /home/smith/openocd/src/openocd ENOENT

This guy: https://github.com/Marus/cortex-debug. Can grab it from the VSCode extensions window.

https://github.com/Marus/cortex-debug/issues/603 More info here.

There's also https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=maziac.asm-code-lens and https://github.com/Marus/cortex-debug

Thank you!

OK. I was thinking to assemble a "Press F5 to debug" solution to speed up my learning process. I'm used to command line tools and hacking stuff together too, so I should be fine if that is the state of the art for debugging (but it would be difficult to convince my coworkers in the future). I wonder if a combination of Eclipse for Rust and OpenOCD plugin is doable. Or perhaps cortex-debug[1] for VS:Code. I have some research to do, to explore the different solutions.

And I'm stuck on Windows too, since many of the tools I use require Windows.

Thanks again.

[1]: https://github.com/marus/cortex-debug