Open a window for debug adapter

[meng-jpg]

Bug Description:

Steps to Reproduce:

1.start theia electron on windows 2.start debug with plugin cpp-tools 3.A window of the debug adapter will be opened.

Additional Information

• Operating System: windows 10 & windows 11
• Theia Version: 1.37.0

[meng-jpg]

cpp-tools version: 1.8.4 launch.json:

{
        "name": "Debug cpptools",
        "type": "cppdbg",
        "request": "launch",
        "externalConsole": true,
        "program": "C:\\Users\\tptuser\\ZStudio\\TerapinesSolution\\project.exe",
        "args": [],
        "cwd": "C:\\Users\\tptuser\\ZStudio\\TerapinesSolution"
    }

[vince-fugnitto]

@meng-jpg thank you for reporting the issue, can you share the example workspace you tested against and confirm what the behavior is in vscode? Also note that vscode-cpptools is proprietary and cannot legally be used by non vscode products.

[meng-jpg]

It's a simply helloworld.c:

#include <stdio.h>

int main() {
    printf("hello\n");
    return 0;
}

We compiled the helloworld.c via gnu-gcc and debugged it via the cpptools extension with the launch.json above.

Also note that vscode-cpptools is proprietary and cannot legally be used by non vscode products.

Does it mean that we cannot provide the cpptools to our customers in our IDE as a builtin extension? In that condition, is there any other c/c++ extensions available since we develop a debugger adapter based on the lldb-vscode extension but it's only a debugger and dose not have some intelligent functionalities.

[msujew]

Does it mean that we cannot provide the cpptools to our customers in our IDE as a builtin extension?

Exactly, it cannot be (legally) used by any product outside of official microsoft products.

In that condition, is there any other c/c++ extensions available since we develop a debugger adapter based on the lldb-vscode extension but it's only a debugger and dose not have some intelligent functionalities.

Developers building Theia apps usually include the clangd extension instead for C/C++ support. For debugging, you can use the cdt-gdb-debugger extension.

[meng-jpg]

When we debugging in vscode via the same version of the cpptools:

The debugger created a window to print output since the externalConsole in the launch.json above is true. But Theia would create another window for the debug adapter binary of the extension.