mGBA debugging not working about gba_vscode_basic

[hoangbv15]

I managed to resolve my issue. The problem was that devkitPro installation did not add "%DEVKITPRO%\tools\bin" to my path (DEVKITPRO is the path to your devkitPro folder).

Trying to run arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe directly revealed the problem to me, it was complaining that it couldn't find the mingw dlls that was supposed to come with devkitPro.

[hoangbv15]

I have the same error, but mGBA doesn't even boot up the rom for me. The strange thing is, if I don't close the mGBA window and just run the build again, another window of mGBA opens and loads the rom correctly, but I would still get the "Unable to start debugging. Unable to establish a connection to GDB. Debug output may contain more information" prompt.
The debug console output will say

Starting: "F:/devkitPro/devkitARM/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe" --interpreter=mi
"F:/devkitPro/devkitARM/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe" exited with code -1073741515 (0xC0000135).

This happens for mGBA 0.8.3 and mGBA 0.6.2, both 32bit and 64bit.

[Aljenci]

Hello hoangbv15!

Today I have some time to continue testing and definitely is the same. Adding the "%DEVKITPRO%\tools\bin" to the Path solve the problem.

Thank you very much! 👍

[Aljenci]

If it is fine I will make a pull request with this added in the readme.

[nightblade9]

Adding the path to devkitpro\tools\bin also solved it for me, a README update PR would be 👌

[Cryosignal]

I don't mean to be hijacking this post but I have the same issue. Adding the path did not fix my issue. Same issue as above, but my debugger windows says "Starting: "C:/devkitPro/devkitARM/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe" --interpreter=mi
"C:/devkitPro/devkitARM/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe" exited with code -1073741515 (0xC0000135)."

[JamieDStewart]

Hi I'll update the project to reflect that the environment variables may need to be set for DEVKITPRO, and Cryosignal I think I have sussed your issue on a separate thread.