I’ve been struggling to set up debugging for my project, I want to do the following:

• Compile source code (c++ project) on my windows PC using vscode and WSL.
• Launch the executable on my embedded linux board through ssh with vscode.
• debug this exe with gdb over ssh.

This is possible with visual studio, but I have not been able to make it work with vscode. I want to use vscode because I build my project with a yocto SDK and visual studio intellisense can’t make sense of it, vscode intellisense works fine however.

I managed to get somewhere relatively close using the ‘native debug’ extension following the process outlined in this article. However, I far as I’ve been able to tell, this method requires copying the code over to the remote machine. I don’t want to do this as my code base is relatively large.

I also found this question: VS Code: Local source code with remote run/debug, there is an answer that suggests pipe transport but there is very little information online regarding how to implement this.

Does anyone have a similar set up and could provide some ideas what I might try next?