Debugging A Project - Raspberry Pi RP2040 Getting Started

Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico
Figure 9. Building the
pico-examples
project in Visual
Studio Code
As we did from the command line previously, amongst other targets, we have now built:
•
hello_usb.elf
•
hello_usb.uf2

7.3. Debugging a Project

The
pico-examples
the application CMake is configured to build. Go ahead and copy this file (
examples/.vscode
settings.json
buttons that attempt to run a Pico binary on the host).
$ cd ~/pico/pico-examples
$ mkdir .vscode
$ cp ide/vscode/launch-raspberrypi-swd.json .vscode/launch.json
$ cp ide/vscode/settings.json .vscode/settings.json
Pico Examples: https://github.com/raspberrypi/pico-examples/tree/master/ide/vscode/launch-raspberrypi-swd.json
1 {
2 "version": "0.2.0",
3 "configurations": [
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7.3. Debugging a Project
, which is used by the debugger
, which can be dragged onto the RP2040 USB Mass Storage Device
repo contains an example debug configuration that will start OpenOCD, attach GDB, and finally launch
directory as . We also provide a
launch.json
removes some potentially confusing options from the CMake plugin (including broken Debug and Run
{
"name": "Pico Debug",
"cwd": "${workspaceRoot}",
"executable": "${command:cmake.launchTargetPath}",
"request": "launch",
"type": "cortex-debug",
"servertype": "openocd",
launch-raspberrypi-swd.json
file that we recommend you also copy. This
settings.json
Lines 1 - 27
) into the
pico-
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