Failed to Start a General Application Debugging Task

Symptom

A general application debugging task fails to be started.

Figure 1 Debugging failure 1

Figure 2 Debugging failure 2

Possible Causes

• The C or C++ plugin is not supported.
• The target server does not have GDB or GDB is not in the specified path.

Procedure

• Upgrade the C or C++ plugin.

• If the target server does not have GDB, download GDB from its official website and install it.
• If GDB is not in the specified path, do as follows:
  1. Run the following command on the target server to query the GDB path:

     1	command -v gdb -v

  2. In the launch.json file, change the value of debuggerPath to the path where the GDB is located.