Linux ARM support

[atilimcetin]

Is it possible to add support for Linux on ARM CPUs?

[sean-mcmanus]

Do you mean running VS Code on ARM CPUs? That doesn't work as far as I know. You can target an ARM CPU for debugging.

[atilimcetin]

I've built VS Code on ARM Linux and can use it without any problem. But cpptools is not working well because Microsoft.VSCode.CPP.Extension.linux is a x86-64 binary. I wonder if there is a way to obtain ARM version of that executable.

[sean-mcmanus]

Ok, that's interesting to know. It's theoretically possible to add, but we're not planning to currently (it hasn't shown up enough in our telemetry).

[atilimcetin]

I understand. Thank you.

[arnaudbuy]

+1, I am also interested ...

[tehKaiN]

At the moment of writing there are unofficial vscode builds for raspi and I had to use one to deploy some hotfixes on my app. Having this addon available in such build would simplify stuff when cross-compiling is out of option.

[PodyNoo]

i would be also interested in support for Linux on ARM CPUs

[yorandrei]

+1 It would be great to have it work on arm

[bobbrow]

Please make sure you add your +1 to the first comment so we can keep track. Thanks!

[ghost]

+1 here as well.

[Dellyjoe]

+1 here. Trying to use platformIO which depends on C/C++ Extensions. Sadly I guess I will have to wait, and can't code on my Tinkerboard

Thank you, Joe

[sean-mcmanus]

@Dellyjoe You could try using platformIO with a different IDE or with a different C/C++ extension that runs on arm. Even if we did build for arm, our binary might use too many resources for the arm device to handle.

[tehKaiN]

@sean-mcmanus ARM platforms are not limited to raspi though. There are lots of armhf boards which have more than 2GB of RAM and way more powerful CPU (e.g. RockPi 4, RockPro64)

[MarkDunn-ObjectiveIntegration]

+1 Running VSCode with clang-9 courtesy of 'headmelted'. on a Pine64 Although I have 'lldb-mi' and 'lldb-vscode' I have not yet found a working plugin for lldb

[sean-mcmanus]

@bobbrow Might be worth spending some cycles to scout what the blocking issues (if any) there are for building linux-arm/linux-arm64 binaries, and/or rechecking telemetry on what the usage of VS Code ARM is currently.

[michalsc]

+1 on this. When I develop code for ARM with VS Code and cpptools I usually use armhf/aarch64 crosscompilers. However, it would be nice to be able to work on ARM directly (RPi4/RockPro64 for example) using Remote Extension and C/C++ Tools.

[Souldat]

Just wanted to voice my upvote for this as well. Would be really huge considering the newly added SSH remote debug / development in the latest version of visual studio code for working with systems like the raspberry pi from windows.

[atyshka]

+1 on this. Now that experimental support for armv7 is being added for raspberry pi in VSCode remote development, adding support in this extension would be a logical next step. arm64 support would also be great for those of us developing with the Jetson family of boards.

[TrevorMuraro]

Also +1 - I was looking for a good remote development toolkit for an embedded Linux project (developing on a pi), and this would be a great thing to have.

[jonk6]

+1 on this from me too. SSH remote debug from within visual studio code for working with systems like the raspberry pi would also be a winner!

[bcatalin]

+1 with the new RPi 4 this is opening a lot of possibilities

[ITotalJustice]

+1 from me too

[capelenglish]

+1 for support of armhf.

[sewonist]

+1 with Nvidia Jetson. It's really need!!!

[kristsm]

+1 from me too

[Souldat]

[fonkle]

+1 for Linux ARM support.

[taxuewill]

+1 for Linux ARM support.

[AndreasKunar]

+1 for Linux ARM support - especially, now that VScode begins to support remote development for the Raspberry Pi

[weety]

+1 for Linux ARM support. Bested support for raspberry pi 4.

[Souldat]

Is there any news on this @sean-mcmanus?

[sean-mcmanus]

@Souldat Not really. We were able to build our extension for ARM, but there were other issues, so the work got post-poned till later.

[peterwaller-arm]

I note that support just landed in vscode remote insiders. Would be excellent to be able to use cpptools.

[johnemaddox]

+1 for cpptools ARM support

[martinrbowman]

Adding +1 for cpptools support for ARM. Target is raspberry Pi devices. Would prefer to use VSCode in Linux than Visual Studio, works very well in Visual Studio so thank you for that.

[krisklau]

Yes!

[ednl]

+1 for Linux arm32hf support, aka. Raspberry Pi (current OS Raspbian 10.1 Buster 32-bits)

[lilealyh]

+1 for cpptools ARM support

[radionerd]

+1 for cpptools ARM support

[bobbrow]

Please add a 👍 to the first comment instead of replying with "+1". This will make sure your vote is being counted.

[radionerd]

Thanks Bob, I still have lots more to learn. Please keep the advice coming :-)

[jimying]

+1 need support armhf for old pi & arm64 for pi4

[Gorbykov]

+1 for NVIDIA Jetson support.

[mdmorar]

+1 for NVIDIA Jetson Support

[tjohnsonhvac]

+1 for armhf

[zeved]

this would be really really usefull as I just managed to install VS Code on a Jetson Nano but I can't use the C++ tools :(

+1 for ARM support

[mdmorar]

+1 for Nvidia Jetson Support for JetPack 4.2 and up +1 for ARM64 support

[movingChurch]

+1

[ebarti]

In the meantime, if you have a machine with windows installed, I recommend you follow:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/remote-overview

or, if you have Visual studio:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/linux-development-with-c-in-visual-studio/

I got tired of waiting for cpptools to be compatible with ARM, so I am now using my fully featured VS to develop all code that goes into my Raspberry Pi 4. Impressive integration, kudos to Microsoft.

[ajuric]

Need this desperately for Nvidia Xavier.

C++ development (which needs to be done on the platform because of testing) is just impossible without IntelliSense and debugging.

Furthermore, I'm also using ROS extension, which depends on this vscode-cpptools, meaning that I cannot even use that ROS extension.