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Visual Studio Code development with gcc and openocd

Hello,

I'm migrating all my projects from Eclipse to VSCode. On Eclipse I used to debug using JLink tools, however I would like to have a more generic tool (not all the devkits I use are equipped with a jlink debugger). I found openocd together with arm-none-eabi-gdb to be a good choice since it supports a number of MCUs and devkits that I use often.

Now, I already made it work for a third party manufacturer's MCU (therefore the installed tools look ok) and I'm trying to do the same for the Nordic's ones but I'm facing problems.

First of all, if I launch openocd from a terminal with the proper parameters (the same used by VScode) everything looks ok. Here the console:

giova@ubuntu-giova:~$ openocd -f board/nordic_nrf52_dk.cfg -c init -c "reset init"
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.10.0
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
openocd.org/.../bugs.html
adapter speed: 10000 kHz
cortex_m reset_config sysresetreq
Info : No device selected, using first device.
Info : J-Link OB-SAM3U128-V2-NordicSemi compiled Jul 24 2017 17:30:12
Info : Hardware version: 1.00
Info : VTarget = 3.300 V
Info : Reduced speed from 10000 kHz to 1000 kHz (maximum).
Info : Reduced speed from 10000 kHz to 1000 kHz (maximum).
Info : clock speed 10000 kHz
Info : SWD DPIDR 0x2ba01477
Info : nrf52.cpu: hardware has 6 breakpoints, 4 watchpoints
target halted due to debug-request, current mode: Thread
xPSR: 0x01000000 pc: 0x000008e8 msp: 0x20000400

and if I run arm-none-eabi-gdb and then target remote localhost:3333 it connects to openocd without apparent errors.

However, when I launch the debug configuration from VScode, openocd starts properly (I see the same output of above) but then something goes wrong since gdb doesn't connect and the console tells is:

<-logout
Send Event AD7MessageEvent

Any idea on how to fix it? Unfortunately the console output is not really meaningful and I cannot say what component is complaining.

Davide

PS: my launch.json file is as follow:

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [  
        {
            "name": "Debug Nordic",
            "type": "cppdbg",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${workspaceRoot}/pca10040/s132/armgcc/_build/nrf52832_xxaa.out",
            "args": [],
            "stopAtEntry": true,
            "cwd": "${workspaceRoot}/pca10040/s132/armgcc/",
            "environment": [],
            "externalConsole": false,
            "debugServerArgs":"-f board/nordic_nrf52_dk.cfg -c init -c \"reset init\"",
            "serverLaunchTimeout": 20000,
            "filterStderr": false,
            "filterStdout": false,
            "serverStarted": "target halted due to debug-request, current mode: Thread",
            "preLaunchTask": "build",
            "setupCommands": [
                { "text": "-target-select remote localhost:3333", "description": "connect to target", "ignoreFailures": false },
                { "text": "-file-exec-and-symbols ${workspaceRoot}/pca10040/s132/armgcc/_build/nrf52832_xxaa.out", "description": "load file", "ignoreFailures": false},
                { "text": "-interpreter-exec console \"monitor endian little\"", "ignoreFailures": false },
                { "text": "-interpreter-exec console \"monitor reset\"", "ignoreFailures": false },
                { "text": "-interpreter-exec console \"monitor halt\"", "ignoreFailures": false },
                { "text": "-interpreter-exec console \"monitor arm semihosting enable\"", "ignoreFailures": false },
                { "text": "-target-download", "description": "flash target", "ignoreFailures": false }
            ],
            "logging": {
                "moduleLoad": true,
                "trace": true,
                "engineLogging": true,
                "programOutput": true,
                "exceptions": true
            },
            "linux": {
                "MIMode": "gdb",
                "MIDebuggerPath": "/usr/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb",
                "debugServerPath": "/usr/local/bin/openocd"
                //"debugServerPath":"/opt/SEGGER/JLink/JLinkGDBServer"
            },
            "osx": {
                "MIMode": "gdb",
                "MIDebuggerPath": "/usr/local/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb",
                "debugServerPath": "/usr/local/Cellar/open-ocd/0.10.0/bin/openocd"
            },
            "windows": {
                "preLaunchTask": "mbed",
                "MIMode": "gdb",
                "MIDebuggerPath": "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\GNU Tools ARM Embedded\\4.9 2015q3\\bin\\arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe",
                "debugServerPath": "openocd.exe",
                "setupCommands": [
                    { "text": "-environment-cd ${workspaceRoot}\\DISCO_F413ZH\\GCC_ARM\\BUILD" }, //what's this?
                    { "text": "-target-select remote localhost:3333", "description": "connect to target", "ignoreFailures": false },
                    { "text": "-file-exec-and-symbols ${workspaceRootFolderName}.elf", "description": "load file", "ignoreFailures": false},
                    { "text": "-interpreter-exec console \"monitor endian little\"", "ignoreFailures": false },
                    { "text": "-interpreter-exec console \"monitor reset\"", "ignoreFailures": false },
                    { "text": "-interpreter-exec console \"monitor halt\"", "ignoreFailures": false },
                    { "text": "-interpreter-exec console \"monitor arm semihosting enable\"", "ignoreFailures": false },
                    { "text": "-target-download", "description": "flash target", "ignoreFailures": false }
                ]
            }
        },
  
    ]
  }

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