Support Apple Silicon ARM64 architecture natively for debugger

[michelleangela]

Type: Debugger

This feature request is to have debugger binaries to run natively on Apple Silicon ARM64.

The feature request to have the language server binaries to run natively on Apple Silicon ARM64 is tracked by
#6595

Note: the cpptools, cpptools-srv, and debugger binaries built for macOS x64 may work on Apple Silicon's x64 emulator, however this may use more resources than having binaries run natively as ARM64 on Apple Silicon.

[XIAZY]

Just some extra info here. VSCode (stable channel) has been released for ARM64-based Macs. Attempting to start debuggers on ARM64 Macs with "targetArchitecture": "arm64" will yield this error:

ERROR: Unable to start debugging. Unexpected LLDB output from command "-exec-run". process exited with status -1 (attach failed ((os/kern) invalid argument))

[Lihp8270]

I'm also experiencing the same issue on the latest update on VSCode running natively on M1.

[michelleangela]

@Lihp8270
The feature to support native debugging on Apple Silicon ARM64 has not been done yet. You can run the current debugger binaries built for Apple Intel x64 using the Rosetta emulator. Note that the debugger for Apple Intel x64 can only debug x86_64 binaries.

[jmarti44]

Any updates on this. I've been having issues running the debugger the debugger for C++

[benjirer]

Does anyone know if this has been fixed? Quite new to vs code, would you recommend downloading the intel version and running through rosetta to use the debugger?

[cloph]

Does anyone know if this has been fixed? Quite new to vs code, would you recommend downloading the intel version and running through rosetta to use the debugger?

No, get the M1 version of Visual Studio Code - but the application you want to debug needs to be built for x86_64 and will be run via Rosetta.