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C++ Attach on Linux Mint 17.3 does not work. #5
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Jacob Gminder (@jgminder) Thanks for the bug report. When you were attaching, did you attach to the same process that you used to launch? Was the program compiled with debug information, and what were the optimization options? We have seen some issues with applications that don't have correct debug symbols compiled into the binaries, with similar symptoms.
I made sure it was the same process I launched. All optimizations were removed and I ran gdb standalone without issue on the program so debug symbols should not be the issue.
had a similar problem. I've gone through almost all of the documentation to install MacPorts and Quartz to get GDB to work, but it just wont attach to the process. I get the same output as jgminder and my breakpoints are never hit.
Sorry for the delay. Jacob Gminder (@jgminder) Can you try it again? I'm using Linux Mint 7.3 in conjunction with VSCode 1.3.1 and our 0.7.1 extension and the attach seems to work fine. I notice I get a prompt to elevate as SU and I entered my password and i'm wondering if you are seeing that also
Rose (@ProjectDestiny) Are you trying to do this on Mac or on Linux Mint?
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on May 22, 2026
I attempted to use the C++ Attach feature of Visual Studio Code using gdb on Linux Mint 17.3 and it did not work. I created a simple helloworld application. Launching the application for debugging (C++ Launch) worked fine but attaching to an existing process did not. I placed a cin statement in to ensure it was paused while I did the attach. Here's the console output:
=thread-group-added,id="i1"
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