Connect Visual Studio C++ Remote Debugging on Windows to a Process on Linux system

Question

Hello,
I would like to connect VS 2019 to a process on the linux system for debugging purposes. (If there is a more convenient way for that, I would like to get to know.)

Firstly, based on the information on this page, https://learn.microsoft.com/de-de/cpp/linux/connect-to-your-remote-linux-computer?view=msvc-160 I created an ssh server on my Linux machine and I connected VS 2019 to my Linux system via ssh

on my Linux machine, I am using a robot in a simulation program (ROS) and C++ code controls it. Debugging is working on my Linux machine using Visual studio code.

Here I attached the process using Visual Studio Code

Here is the debugging using Visual Studio Code on Linux

However, I would like to connect my VS 2019 to this process for debugging purposes.

For that I open VS 2019 and click the "Attach to Process"

Here is the picture for clicking to attach process

After that , I connected to my Linux machine via SSH in VS 2019 and attached the process as I shown in the following picture.

Attaching Process to the specific Process ID on Linux machine

Selecting debug code type

Then I see a empty screen in VS 2019 shown in following picture.

After attaching process ID

Do you have any idea how can I do this? or do you know different and more convenient way?

Answer 1

Hi ErdiSayar,

Attaching SSH is applied to .net core application. You need to create a Linux console application, which can help you debug your C++ code on remote linux server.

Best Regards, Dylan

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Answer 2

Thank you very much for your comments.
I followed instructions in the web page you refereed. However,I did not succeed in doing this.
Let me explain these in the following;
I created "Linux Console Application" and made a SSH Connections to the my Linux machine.

I see the following page as a default page in Visual Studio 2019. When I clicked the run button (green arrow inside yellow rectangle in the picture ), then I see the output in Linux Console Window.

Now on the linux machine , I created a simple C++ Program named 'main.cpp' in Visual Studio Code.

Now , I tried to attach process ;

then I see 2 different types of debugging;

If I select native GDB, , then I got the following error,

If I select "Net Core for Unit", then I see the following screen which VS 2019 attached the process successfully.

Now How can I interact with the main.cpp file in my linux machine using VS 2019?

Can I continue the debugging process using VS 2019 for the running script in the linux machine ?

Thank you