Vscode-cpptools: Symbols are not found when using Visual Studio Windows Debugger.

[aoyulong]

I use Visual Studio Windows Debugger after compiling my source code by using command cl /Zi source.c /link /out:run.exe . It shows that some symbols are not found. OS: win 10 64 bit and the VS code: 1.5.3. However, the code can run correctly without debugging.

[jacdavis]

Thanks for reporting this. This is the way symbols work when debugging works on windows. System modules do not load symbols by-default as they constantly change. In order to obtain them, you can download them from the Microsoft public symbol server which is located here: https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

If you set the symbol search path to include the symbol server, they will download. Example:
"symbolSearchPath": "https://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols"

[uuf6429]

To whoever might see this in the future, symbolSearchPath is a key of launch.json -> configurations[n].

[bsed]

"symbolSearchPath": "C:\\Symbols",
_NT_SYMBOL_PATH = cache*c:\symbols;srv*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols

see : https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/cpp

[sean-mcmanus]

@bsed I don't understand. Where is that UI from? Our extension uses launch.json, but the text you're using isn't valid json.