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The Visual Studio MI Debug Engine ("MIEngine") provides an open-source Visual Studio Debugger extension that works with MI-enabled debuggers such as gdb and lldb.

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Dominant language: C#
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 27, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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When debugging multiple inferiors with gdb, if one inferior exits the full debug session stops Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1618 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2026
`cppdbg` / MIEngine loses debugger control with `gdb 17.1` in Linux dev container, while `gdb 16.2` works Open

question

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microsoft/MIEngine#1607 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 9, 2026
MIMode doesn't use RemoteGdbTarget functionality when setup by .gdbinit Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1546 · Opened Mar 1, 2026
MiEngine fails to start GDB 17 Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1534 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 13, 2026
Natvis Parity: Missing `,na[⋯]` Specifiers Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1533 · Opened Jan 7, 2026
vscode cppdbg should not launch a new terminal when using attach mode Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1532 · Opened Dec 26, 2025
Building MIDebugEngine solution requires elevated user Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1514 · Opened Aug 31, 2025
An error happened when launch gdb at msys2/bash.exe Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1499 · Opened Apr 1, 2025
`MapWindowsToCygwin` returns Windows path Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1498 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 21, 2025
`"cwd"` launch option ignored with custom launch commands or upon attach Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1494 · Opened Mar 5, 2025
.Net Core for Unix engine does not load debug symbols for remote Maui Mac Catalyst debugging. Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1487 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 29, 2024
How to launch a debug session without either VS or VS Code? Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1481 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 9, 2024
Bug in Breakpoint Setting with Multiple main.c/main.cpp Files in Heterogeneous Debug Session Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1480 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 3, 2024
Specific -var-create in core dump debugging is incredible slow Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1479 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 3, 2024
Connection refused: OpenDebugAD7 --server --pauseForDebugger [WSL2] how to debug? Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1478 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 2, 2024
[Query] Max Instruction Size for riscv64 Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1465 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 4, 2024
Natvis failed to parse typename: nlohmann::basic_json Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1457 · Opened Jun 6, 2024
Tries to set breakpoint at main, although setting stopAtEntry is False Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1453 · 2 comments · Opened May 16, 2024
Mac builds fail since macos-latest runner is now M1 Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1451 · Opened May 2, 2024
templated type alias not recognized Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1449 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 16, 2024
`TryGetTidFromTargetId()` fails to parse thread ID from `target-id` if format is like `Thread 123.123` Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1448 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 28, 2024
PRovide a way to actually enable the natvis diagnostics in VS Code Open

question

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microsoft/MIEngine#1432 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 21, 2023
Mismatch between expected threadId and actual thread ID in stopped event Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1424 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 2, 2023
`EnsureProperPathSeparators()` causes wrong paths with Cygwin Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1418 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 6, 2023
VS 2022 Attach to process (gdb): Docker (Linux container) works, SSH (same container process) hangs loading symbols Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1416 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 23, 2023
In `-target-select {remoteMode} {destination}`, the GDB remoteMode should also be able to be supplied by user. Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1410 · Opened Jul 10, 2023
remote debug issues, cannot launch debugger, parameter 'arch' Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1404 · Opened Jun 7, 2023
Clarification on LocalTransport's default killOnClose value affecting GDB disposal Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1397 · Opened Apr 14, 2023
Debuggers are not killed when vscode server exits after connection loss Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1393 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 4, 2023
The debugger engine does not work with modern versions of GDB. Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1392 · 7 comments · Opened Mar 29, 2023
Unable to launch debugger in Visual Studio 2022: "launch: program '' does not exist." Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1389 · 5 comments · Opened Mar 4, 2023
[Feature request] Way to bypass "Superuser access is required to attach to process..." dialog Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1388 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 23, 2023
Disassembly view not working with Ada Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1383 · Opened Feb 3, 2023
[Feature Request] support run custom command like local gdb Open

question

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microsoft/MIEngine#1374 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 17, 2022
Address race by f91dec6 Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1372 · Opened Nov 9, 2022
[natvis] support ',[expr]' to visualize a dynamic array pointer Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1369 · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 6, 2022
Lacking VSCode natvis constructs Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1368 · 9 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Nov 5, 2022
debug envoy with vscode remote container(wsl2) bad DWP hash table Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1341 · Opened Aug 20, 2022
[Feature Request] support custom `launchCompleteCommands` Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1335 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2022
Test infrastructure: Add a custom editor for DAR tests Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1332 · Opened Jul 24, 2022
Wrong exit-code parsing Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1328 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 13, 2022
Support stack frames pagination for a thread Open

Feature Request

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microsoft/MIEngine#1311 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 6, 2022
GDB Server stopOnEntry broken on embedded systems Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1306 · Opened May 4, 2022
VS 2019 runtime issue with dependencies Open

question

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microsoft/MIEngine#1294 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 24, 2022
GDB for STM32: Debug.Restart not available Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1275 · Opened Feb 15, 2022
GDB and Executable: load file.elf in GDB impossible Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1274 · Opened Feb 15, 2022
Disable Exception Filter if debugger does not support `-catch-throw` Open

bug VS Code

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microsoft/MIEngine#1264 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 28, 2022
Validate conditions in SetExceptionBreakpoint ExceptionOptions Open

enhancement

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microsoft/MIEngine#1253 · Opened Dec 15, 2021
Cannot debug the 64-bit version of a C++ library for Android using Visual Studio Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1246 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 2, 2021
Kindly please add -gdb-set target-async off Open

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microsoft/MIEngine#1227 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 4, 2021

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