C++ Tutorial for Beginners #10: Debugging Makefile Project with Visual Studio Code IDE | (Linux GDB)

C++ Tutorial for Beginners Episode 10 where we Debug a Makefile Project with Visual Studio Code on Linux. This C++ Tutorial is intended for C/C++ Beginners with Debugging and will help you debug using Visual Studio Code on Linux and you'll get help debugging your Makefile project. You'll be shown how to debug with a Makefile project in Visual Studio Code on Linux. Also make sure to subscribe so you can follow the series and develop.

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[joaquinortiz]

Wonderful! you uploaded this video just at the right moment for me, I have to debug a project before uploading it today for the university. Thank you very much! Keep doing this playlist please

[HasanBasri-vfkg]

Amazing! I'm looking for days to solve debugging issue. Thanks for your fantastic effort to teach something. You're great teacher. Greetings from Turkey...

[SavvyNik]

This is the last video in the series. Review past videos & the repo in this comment. Thanks so much for joining in!!

[marcioadames]

Hey, SavvyNik. Thank you for the c++ tutorial series. Great content. I followed your tutorials and then started from scratch to make my own "SimpleList". A few things I did in different fashion, but it worked well. I believe it worked thanks to the structures from your tutorials.

[MrPkmonster]

Thank you sir. You saved me a lot of time. I was frustrated when setting up the VSCode and C/C++ debugger.

[jinzhanghsu]

wow after a few hours of searching i finally found this useful video... thank you for helping me being able to hand in my homework on time☺☺

[vankampen]

Great video... Thank you very much!!! Very much appreciate it!!! As somebody suggested, it would be also useful to learn how to use Makefile Tools!!!

[moahmadi]

Just wanted to thank you for putting up this video. This was exactly what I was looking for. If possible, add a video on remote debugging using serial port or usb connection.

[jordancastellanos]

i would like to share my appreciation, for your great work and effort.

keep up the great work.

[WobblePizza]

Good video on how to use the debugger. However I think talk of the "Makefile Tools" extension would be helpful here. No more typing make all the time, nor do you need the launch.json system.

[sharmanjoshi]

This is what I was looking for! Thank you SavvyNik!!
Anyway, I usually create 'build' folder and try to run make and keep output files in there. So the Makefile is in 'build' folder and source files are in upper folder of Makefile. Is it possible to debug as you told us in that environment?

[prestonglenn]

Thank you so much. This was a great tutorial!

[wdcgaluppo]

Thank you very much for your videos! I appreciate and It helped me a lot!

[GilFavor]

I went from pulling my hair out to setting breakpoints that work, thank you : )

[rickkkyrich]

Thanks for this, one question. If we parse the arguments in the format --arg1=val1 --arg2=val2 and so on, How to edit the Json file for debugging in this case?

[grayrollingart]

would like an answer to this: how to get a 'real program'/gui program to run in visual studio code?

i cloned money manager ex using vsc, but when i try to 'run' it vsc ask for enviroment - the choices are browsers or nodes.

no option to run it in the os- ubuntu

[felipexg]

Thank you for sharing this videos, it solved many misconceptions about make and c++ development in vscode for me. Could I have the possibility to hang the json files out of my git repository ? ( so i can work in team with others without screw up them workflow)

[david.fit]

Thanks for this video man, it really helped me. Can you configure vscode to run "make" before debugging? Its not that practical to have to type make by hand every time, if you could just hit F5 and it would do for you. Also any way to not have to edit the Makefile to include the -g option? Again its not that practical if you want to generate a non debug build to have to edit the file every time you want to switch from debug to normal build

[jimmycoconut]

Some example on segfault would be nice too

[elenagonzalez]

Hi, I'm trying to debug my makefile program but i have a fatal error with a few dependencies could you help me?