Unable to find GDB

[romangg]

When following the guide debugging is not possible because it can't find GDB. Running works fine though.

[romangg]

Maybe just needs to be installed to the container?

[LordTermor]

It uses lldb.

I've updated needed vscode extension, now it uses official llvm-vs-code-extensions.lldb-dap instead of third party vadimcn.vscode-lldb and should try to run /bin/lldb-vscode-17, not lldb-mi.

Try to install the extension.

[romangg]

I'm pretty sure I installed all extensions it asked for. Let me try again.

[romangg]

The extension llvm-vs-code-extensions.lldb-dap is installed in the container. There is /bin/lldb-vscode-17 but no /bin/lldb-dab what the extension says would be needed.

[LordTermor]

They've renamed the executable in llvm 18, we're still 17.

Check launch.conf and settings of this extension, I've added needed path to the config but maybe it conflicts with something.

Actually, judging from your screenshot it looks like you're trying to debug using Microsoft's cpptools and not lldb-dap, how exactly are you running the debugger?

[romangg]

Like that:

This is run form a complete new local checkout of the project. So it should work out-of-the-box without any manual changes necessary. I installed all recommended extensions in the dev container too.

Now that you mention it though, going to the "Run and Debug" screen and pressing there on Start Debugging works though. Doing that once adds another button to the bottom:

It would be nice if the "Launch the debugger for the selected target" button is doing something useful too and not error out what is confusing.