You can see the miDebuggerPath set to use arm-none-eabi-gdb while the debugServerPath is set to invoke openocd with the configuration script in debugServerArgs. vscode/launch.json and look at the launch configuration. To see how the launch is controlled in the sidebar open. CCR1 which is a peripheral register on the board which we’ll inspect while we are debugging. Navigate to the subfolder for the board you are using, here I’m using the Azure IoT DevKit. This sample will serve as our example project for the remainder of this post. In a future release this will be integrated into a Visual Studio Code extension for a more seamless experience.įrom a PowerShell prompt, clone the Azure RTOS getting started repo. Today we’ll demonstrate using vcpkg from a PowerShell prompt to activate our embedded development environment, but you can use the shell you prefer on your platform. This is where the new artifact capabilities in vcpkg can help us. It is not uncommon to have different compilers used for different projects, custom debug tools, etc. One of the challenges in embedded development is getting the tools necessary installed and configured.

To get started install VS Code, then in the extensions side bar search for Embedded Tools and install it. The techniques used for interacting with these boards should be applicable to other targets by changing configuration information we’ll highlight throughout. We have dedicated pages for VS Code usage in the getting started guides for the Azure IoT DevKit, NXP 1060, and STMicro STM32L4_L4+ IOT01A boards ( L475E or L4S5I). We will demonstrate all of this with an Azure RTOS ThreadX project.Īzure RTOS ThreadX is a widely used Real Time Operating System (RTOS) used on billions of microcontrollers (MCUs) in products around the world. In this post we will walk you through how to acquire embedded tool dependencies with vcpkg, then demonstrate edit, build, deploy, and debugging directly in VS Code with new peripheral register and RTOS object views. Used in conjunction with the new vcpkg artifact capabilities you can quickly bootstrap an embedded development machine and get started. These capabilities are the same as what we recently announced for Visual Studio 2022. We are happy to announce that we have released the Embedded Tools extension for Visual Studio Code.

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