Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

In this tutorial, you will configure Visual Studio Code to use the GCC C++ compiler (g++) and GDB debugger on Linux. GCC stands for GNU Compiler Collection; GDB is the GNU debugger.

After configuring VS Code, you will compile and debug a simple C++ program in VS Code. This tutorial does not teach you GCC, GDB, Ubuntu or the C++ language. For those subjects, there are many good resources available on the Web.

If you have trouble, feel free to file an issue for this tutorial in the VS Code documentation repository.

Prerequisites

To successfully complete this tutorial, you must do the following:

  1. Install Visual Studio Code.

  2. Install the C++ extension for VS Code. You can install the C/C++ extension by searching for 'c++' in the Extensions view (⇧⌘X (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+X)).

    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

Ensure GCC is installed

Although you'll use VS Code to edit your source code, you'll compile the source code on Linux using the g++ compiler. You'll also use GDB to debug. These tools are not installed by default on Ubuntu, so you have to install them. Fortunately, that's easy.

First, check to see whether GCC is already installed. To verify whether it is, open a Terminal window and enter the following command:

gcc -v

If GCC isn't installed, run the following command from the terminal window to update the Ubuntu package lists. An out-of-date Linux distribution can sometimes interfere with attempts to install new packages.

sudo apt-get update

Next install the GNU compiler tools and the GDB debugger with this command:

sudo apt-get install build-essential gdb

Create Hello World

From the terminal window, create an empty folder called

sudo apt-get update
0 to store your VS Code projects. Then create a subfolder called
sudo apt-get update
1, navigate into it, and open VS Code in that folder by entering the following commands:

mkdir projects
cd projects
mkdir helloworld
cd helloworld
code .

The

sudo apt-get update
2 command opens VS Code in the current working folder, which becomes your "workspace". As you go through the tutorial, you will create three files in a
sudo apt-get update
3 folder in the workspace:

  • sudo apt-get update
    
    4 (compiler build settings)
  • sudo apt-get update
    
    5 (debugger settings)
  • sudo apt-get update
    
    6 (compiler path and IntelliSense settings)

Add hello world source code file

In the File Explorer title bar, select New File and name the file

sudo apt-get update
7.

Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

Paste in the following source code:

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    vector<string> msg {"Hello", "C++", "World", "from", "VS Code", "and the C++ extension!"};

    for (const string& word : msg)
    {
        cout << word << " ";
    }
    cout << endl;
}

Now press ⌘S (Windows, Linux Ctrl+S) to save the file. Notice that your files are listed in the File Explorer view (⇧⌘E (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+E)) in the side bar of VS Code:

Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

You can also enable to automatically save your file changes, by checking Auto Save in the main File menu.

The Activity Bar on the edge of Visual Studio Code lets you open different views such as Search, Source Control, and Run. You'll look at the Run view later in this tutorial. You can find out more about the other views in the VS Code User Interface documentation.

Note: When you save or open a C++ file, you may see a notification from the C/C++ extension about the availability of an Insiders version, which lets you test new features and fixes. You can ignore this notification by selecting the

sudo apt-get update
8 (Clear Notification).

Explore IntelliSense

In the

sudo apt-get update
7 file, hover over
sudo apt-get install build-essential gdb
0 or
sudo apt-get install build-essential gdb
1 to see type information. After the declaration of the
sudo apt-get install build-essential gdb
2 variable, start typing
sudo apt-get install build-essential gdb
3as you would when calling a member function. You should immediately see a completion list that shows all the member functions, and a window that shows the type information for the
sudo apt-get install build-essential gdb
2 object:

Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

You can press the Tab key to insert the selected member. Then, when you add the opening parenthesis, you'll see information about arguments that the function requires.

Run helloworld.cpp

Remember, the C++ extension uses the C++ compiler you have installed on your machine to build your program. Make sure you have a C++ compiler installed before attempting to run and debug

sudo apt-get update
7 in VS Code.

  1. Open

    sudo apt-get update
    
    7 so that it is the active file.

  2. Press the play button in the top right corner of the editor.

    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

  3. Choose g++ build and debug active file from the list of detected compilers on your system.

    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

You'll only be asked to choose a compiler the first time you run

sudo apt-get update
7. This compiler will be set as the "default" compiler in
sudo apt-get update
4 file.

  1. After the build succeeds, your program's output will appear in the integrated Terminal.

    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

The first time you run your program, the C++ extension creates

sudo apt-get update
4, which you'll find in your project's
sudo apt-get update
3 folder.
sudo apt-get update
4 stores build configurations.

Your new

sudo apt-get update
4 file should look similar to the JSON below:

{
  "version": "2.0.0",
  "tasks": [
    {
      "type": "shell",
      "label": "C/C++: g++ build active file",
      "command": "/usr/bin/g++",
      "args": ["-g", "${file}", "-o", "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}"],
      "options": {
        "cwd": "/usr/bin"
      },
      "problemMatcher": ["$gcc"],
      "group": {
        "kind": "build",
        "isDefault": true
      },
      "detail": "Task generated by Debugger."
    }
  ]
}

Note: You can learn more about

sudo apt-get update
4 variables in the variables reference.

The

mkdir projects
cd projects
mkdir helloworld
cd helloworld
code .
4 setting specifies the program to run; in this case that is g++. The
mkdir projects
cd projects
mkdir helloworld
cd helloworld
code .
5 array specifies the command-line arguments that will be passed to g++. These arguments must be specified in the order expected by the compiler.

This task tells g++ to take the active file (

mkdir projects
cd projects
mkdir helloworld
cd helloworld
code .
6), compile it, and create an executable file in the current directory (
mkdir projects
cd projects
mkdir helloworld
cd helloworld
code .
7) with the same name as the active file but without an extension (
mkdir projects
cd projects
mkdir helloworld
cd helloworld
code .
8), resulting in
sudo apt-get update
1 for our example.

The

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    vector<string> msg {"Hello", "C++", "World", "from", "VS Code", "and the C++ extension!"};

    for (const string& word : msg)
    {
        cout << word << " ";
    }
    cout << endl;
}
0 value is what you will see in the tasks list; you can name this whatever you like.

The

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    vector<string> msg {"Hello", "C++", "World", "from", "VS Code", "and the C++ extension!"};

    for (const string& word : msg)
    {
        cout << word << " ";
    }
    cout << endl;
}
1 value is what you will as the description of the task in the tasks list. It's highly recommended to rename this value to differentiate it from similar tasks.

From now on, the play button will read from

sudo apt-get update
4 to figure out how to build and run your program. You can define multiple build tasks in
sudo apt-get update
4, and whichever task is marked as the default will be used by the play button. In case you need to change the default compiler, you can run Tasks: Configure default build task. Alternatively you can modify the
sudo apt-get update
4 file and remove the default by replacing this segment:

    "group": {
        "kind": "build",
        "isDefault": true
    },

with this:

    "group": "build",

Modifying tasks.json

You can modify your

sudo apt-get update
4 to build multiple C++ files by using an argument like
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    vector<string> msg {"Hello", "C++", "World", "from", "VS Code", "and the C++ extension!"};

    for (const string& word : msg)
    {
        cout << word << " ";
    }
    cout << endl;
}
6 instead of
mkdir projects
cd projects
mkdir helloworld
cd helloworld
code .
6.This will build all
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    vector<string> msg {"Hello", "C++", "World", "from", "VS Code", "and the C++ extension!"};

    for (const string& word : msg)
    {
        cout << word << " ";
    }
    cout << endl;
}
8 files in your current folder. You can also modify the output filename by replacing
#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
    vector<string> msg {"Hello", "C++", "World", "from", "VS Code", "and the C++ extension!"};

    for (const string& word : msg)
    {
        cout << word << " ";
    }
    cout << endl;
}
9 with a hard-coded filename (for example 'helloworld.out').

Debug helloworld.cpp

  1. Go back to
    sudo apt-get update
    
    7 so that it is the active file.
  2. Set a breakpoint by clicking on the editor margin or using F9 on the current line.
    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode
  3. From the drop-down next to the play button, select Debug C/C++ File.
    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode
    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode
  4. Choose C/C++: g++ build and debug active file from the list of detected compilers on your system (you'll only be asked to choose a compiler the first time you run/debug
    sudo apt-get update
    
    7).
    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

The play button has two modes: Run C/C++ File and Debug C/C++ File. It will default to the last-used mode. If you see the debug icon in the play button, you can just click the play button to debug, instead of selecting the drop-down menu item.

Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

Explore the debugger

Before you start stepping through the code, let's take a moment to notice several changes in the user interface:

  • The Integrated Terminal appears at the bottom of the source code editor. In the Debug Output tab, you see output that indicates the debugger is up and running.

  • The editor highlights line 12, which is a breakpoint that you set before starting the debugger:

    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

  • The Run and Debug view on the left shows debugging information. You'll see an example later in the tutorial.

  • At the top of the code editor, a debugging control panel appears. You can move this around the screen by grabbing the dots on the left side.

    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

If you already have a launch.json file in your workspace, the play button will read from it when figuring out how run and debug your C++ file. If you don’t have launch.json, the play button will create a temporary “quick debug” configuration on the fly, eliminating the need for launch.json altogether!

Step through the code

Now you're ready to start stepping through the code.

  1. Click or press the Step over icon in the debugging control panel.

    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

    This will advance program execution to the first line of the for loop, and skip over all the internal function calls within the

    sudo apt-get install build-essential gdb
    
    0 and
    sudo apt-get install build-essential gdb
    
    1 classes that are invoked when the
    sudo apt-get install build-essential gdb
    
    2 variable is created and initialized. Notice the change in the Variables window on the side.

    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

  2. Press Step over again to advance to the next statement in this program (skipping over all the internal code that is executed to initialize the loop). Now, the Variables window shows information about the loop variables.

  3. Press Step over again to execute the

    {
      "version": "2.0.0",
      "tasks": [
        {
          "type": "shell",
          "label": "C/C++: g++ build active file",
          "command": "/usr/bin/g++",
          "args": ["-g", "${file}", "-o", "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}"],
          "options": {
            "cwd": "/usr/bin"
          },
          "problemMatcher": ["$gcc"],
          "group": {
            "kind": "build",
            "isDefault": true
          },
          "detail": "Task generated by Debugger."
        }
      ]
    }
    
    5 statement. (Note that as of the March 2019 release, the C++ extension does not print any output to the Debug Console until the last cout executes.)

  4. If you like, you can keep pressing Step over until all the words in the vector have been printed to the console. But if you are curious, try pressing the Step Into button to step through source code in the C++ standard library!

    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

    To return to your own code, one way is to keep pressing Step over. Another way is to set a breakpoint in your code by switching to the

    sudo apt-get update
    
    7 tab in the code editor, putting the insertion point somewhere on the
    {
      "version": "2.0.0",
      "tasks": [
        {
          "type": "shell",
          "label": "C/C++: g++ build active file",
          "command": "/usr/bin/g++",
          "args": ["-g", "${file}", "-o", "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}"],
          "options": {
            "cwd": "/usr/bin"
          },
          "problemMatcher": ["$gcc"],
          "group": {
            "kind": "build",
            "isDefault": true
          },
          "detail": "Task generated by Debugger."
        }
      ]
    }
    
    5 statement inside the loop, and pressing F9. A red dot appears in the gutter on the left to indicate that a breakpoint has been set on this line.

    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

    Then press F5 to start execution from the current line in the standard library header. Execution will break on

    {
      "version": "2.0.0",
      "tasks": [
        {
          "type": "shell",
          "label": "C/C++: g++ build active file",
          "command": "/usr/bin/g++",
          "args": ["-g", "${file}", "-o", "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}"],
          "options": {
            "cwd": "/usr/bin"
          },
          "problemMatcher": ["$gcc"],
          "group": {
            "kind": "build",
            "isDefault": true
          },
          "detail": "Task generated by Debugger."
        }
      ]
    }
    
    5. If you like, you can press F9 again to toggle off the breakpoint.

    When the loop has completed, you can see the output in the Debug Console tab of the integrated terminal, along with some other diagnostic information that is output by GDB.

    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

Set a watch

To keep track of the value of a variable as your program executes, set a watch on the variable.

  1. Place the insertion point inside the loop. In the Watch window, click the plus sign and in the text box, type

    {
      "version": "2.0.0",
      "tasks": [
        {
          "type": "shell",
          "label": "C/C++: g++ build active file",
          "command": "/usr/bin/g++",
          "args": ["-g", "${file}", "-o", "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}"],
          "options": {
            "cwd": "/usr/bin"
          },
          "problemMatcher": ["$gcc"],
          "group": {
            "kind": "build",
            "isDefault": true
          },
          "detail": "Task generated by Debugger."
        }
      ]
    }
    
    9, which is the name of the loop variable. Now view the Watch window as you step through the loop.

    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

  2. To quickly view the value of any variable while execution is paused on a breakpoint, you can hover over it with the mouse pointer.

    Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

Next, you'll create a

sudo apt-get update
4 file to tell VS Code how to build (compile) the program. This task will invoke the g++ compiler to create an executable file from the source code.

It's important to have

sudo apt-get update
7 open in the editor because the next step uses the active file in the editor for context to create the build task in the next step.

Customize debugging with launch.json

When you debug with the play button or F5, the C++ extension creates a dynamic debug configuration on the fly.

There are cases where you'd want to customize your debug configuration, such as specifying arguments to pass to the program at runtime. You can define custom debug configurations in a

sudo apt-get update
5 file.

To create

sudo apt-get update
5, choose Add Debug Configuration from the play button drop-down menu.

Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

You'll then see a dropdown for various predefined debugging configurations. Choose g++ build and debug active file.

Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

VS Code creates a

sudo apt-get update
5 file, which looks something like this:

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "C/C++: g++ build and debug active file",
      "type": "cppdbg",
      "request": "launch",
      "program": "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}",
      "args": [],
      "stopAtEntry": false,
      "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
      "environment": [],
      "externalConsole": false,
      "MIMode": "gdb",
      "miDebuggerPath": "/usr/bin/gdb",
      "setupCommands": [
        {
          "description": "Enable pretty-printing for gdb",
          "text": "-enable-pretty-printing",
          "ignoreFailures": true
        }
      ],
      "preLaunchTask": "C/C++: g++ build active file"
    }
  ]
}

In the JSON above,

    "group": {
        "kind": "build",
        "isDefault": true
    },
5 specifies the program you want to debug. Here it is set to the active file folder
mkdir projects
cd projects
mkdir helloworld
cd helloworld
code .
7 and active filename without an extension
mkdir projects
cd projects
mkdir helloworld
cd helloworld
code .
8, which if
sudo apt-get update
7 is the active file will be
sudo apt-get update
1. The
mkdir projects
cd projects
mkdir helloworld
cd helloworld
code .
5 property is an array of arguments to pass to the program at runtime.

By default, the C++ extension won't add any breakpoints to your source code and the

    "group": "build",
1 value is set to
    "group": "build",
2.

Change the

    "group": "build",
1 value to
    "group": "build",
4 to cause the debugger to stop on the
    "group": "build",
5 method when you start debugging.

From now on, the play button and F5 will read from your

sudo apt-get update
5 file when launching your program for debugging.

C/C++ configurations

If you want more control over the C/C++ extension, you can create a

sudo apt-get update
6 file, which will allow you to change settings such as the path to the compiler, include paths, C++ standard (default is C++17), and more.

You can view the C/C++ configuration UI by running the command C/C++: Edit Configurations (UI) from the Command Palette (⇧⌘P (Windows, Linux Ctrl+Shift+P)).

Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

This opens the C/C++ Configurations page. When you make changes here, VS Code writes them to a file called

sudo apt-get update
6 in the
sudo apt-get update
3 folder.

Cara menggunakan debug php in vscode

You only need to modify the Include path setting if your program includes header files that are not in your workspace or in the standard library path.

Visual Studio Code places these settings in

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "C/C++: g++ build and debug active file",
      "type": "cppdbg",
      "request": "launch",
      "program": "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}",
      "args": [],
      "stopAtEntry": false,
      "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
      "environment": [],
      "externalConsole": false,
      "MIMode": "gdb",
      "miDebuggerPath": "/usr/bin/gdb",
      "setupCommands": [
        {
          "description": "Enable pretty-printing for gdb",
          "text": "-enable-pretty-printing",
          "ignoreFailures": true
        }
      ],
      "preLaunchTask": "C/C++: g++ build active file"
    }
  ]
}
0. If you open that file directly, it should look something like this:

{
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "Linux",
      "includePath": ["${workspaceFolder}/**"],
      "defines": [],
      "compilerPath": "/usr/bin/gcc",
      "cStandard": "c11",
      "cppStandard": "c++17",
      "intelliSenseMode": "clang-x64"
    }
  ],
  "version": 4
}

Reusing your C++ configuration

VS Code is now configured to use gcc on Linux. The configuration applies to the current workspace. To reuse the configuration, just copy the JSON files to a

sudo apt-get update
3 folder in a new project folder (workspace) and change the names of the source file(s) and executable as needed.

Troubleshooting

Compiler and linking errors

The most common cause of errors (such as

{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "C/C++: g++ build and debug active file",
      "type": "cppdbg",
      "request": "launch",
      "program": "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}",
      "args": [],
      "stopAtEntry": false,
      "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
      "environment": [],
      "externalConsole": false,
      "MIMode": "gdb",
      "miDebuggerPath": "/usr/bin/gdb",
      "setupCommands": [
        {
          "description": "Enable pretty-printing for gdb",
          "text": "-enable-pretty-printing",
          "ignoreFailures": true
        }
      ],
      "preLaunchTask": "C/C++: g++ build active file"
    }
  ]
}
2, or
{
  "version": "0.2.0",
  "configurations": [
    {
      "name": "C/C++: g++ build and debug active file",
      "type": "cppdbg",
      "request": "launch",
      "program": "${fileDirname}/${fileBasenameNoExtension}",
      "args": [],
      "stopAtEntry": false,
      "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
      "environment": [],
      "externalConsole": false,
      "MIMode": "gdb",
      "miDebuggerPath": "/usr/bin/gdb",
      "setupCommands": [
        {
          "description": "Enable pretty-printing for gdb",
          "text": "-enable-pretty-printing",
          "ignoreFailures": true
        }
      ],
      "preLaunchTask": "C/C++: g++ build active file"
    }
  ]
}
3, and so on) occurs when
sudo apt-get update
7 is not the active file when you start a build or start debugging. This is because the compiler is trying to compile something that isn't source code, like your
sudo apt-get update
5,
sudo apt-get update
4, or
sudo apt-get update
6 file.