Hi,

These are debug commands in serial debug breakpoints. They are invalid if you switch on the "vMicro>Debugger>Use Visual Studio Debugging" option because GDB does not recognize them.

The breakpoint causing the error is automatically inserted if "vMicro>General>Tutorial Mode" is enabled

So you have a lot of options

if you switch off vMicro>Debugger>Use Visual Studio Debugging you should go back to normal serial/udp debug which is best for esp

Or switch the toolbar from Debug to Release to switch off debug

Or leave things as they are but delete the breakpoint and try the build again. A new GDB compatible breakpoint should be automatically created. 

Or delete the breakpoint and switch off "vMicro>General>Tutorial Mode"

my last post was inadvertently sent to server before I was done editing  and I had difficulty editing it afterwards, so I'll instead continue here. 

certainly if I switch off debug, that solves the problem.

however - I also do not have any breakpoints and I'd like to be able to use debug features.

curiously, the problem for me seems to be related to some "conditional parameters" that I am using (perhaps there's a better way of doing this?) Although a "seasoned" software engineer, I am relatively new to open source & GitHub; I thought that perhaps keeping my config in a separate & common location would ensure passwords would never get published to GitHub - regardless of gitignore settings, etc.

This code fails to compile in debug mode:

//***************************************************
// My config is stored in myPrivateSettings.h file
// if you choose not to use such a file, set this to false:
#define USE_myPrivateSettings true

#if USE_myPrivateSettings == true
#include "/workspace/myPrivateSettings.h"
#else
//create your own myPrivateSettings.h, or edit the following lines:
const char* WIFI_SSID = "my-wifi-SSID";
const char* WIFI_PWD = "my-WiFi-PASSWORD";
const char* DASHBOARD_URL = "/mylink/myfile.json";
const char* DASHBOARD_HOST = "mydashboardhost.com";
#endif
//***************************************************

void setup()
{

  /* add setup code here */

}

void loop()
{

  /* add main program code here */

}
 

with this error:

Building project code ...
elf-gcc\1.20.0-26-gb404fb9-2/bin/xtensa-lx106-elf-g++" -D__ets__ -DICACHE_FLASH -U__STRICT_ANSI__ 2.3.0/tools/sdk/include" 2.3.0/tools/sdk/lwip/include" u\Debug/core" -c -Wall -Os -g -mlongcalls -mtext-section-literals -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti -falign-functions=4 -std=c++11 -MMD -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -DF_CPU=80000000L -DLWIP_OPEN_SRC -DARDUINO=10801 -DARDUINO_ESP8266_NODEMCU -DARDUINO_ARCH_ESP8266 -DARDUINO_BOARD=\"ESP8266_NODEMCU\" -DESP8266 2.3.0\cores\esp8266" 2.3.0\variants\nodemcu" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\libraries" 2.3.0\libraries" -I"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\j3ioxtms.agx\Micro Platforms\default\debuggers" -I"C:\Users\gojimmypi\Documents\Arduino\libraries" Debug\VisualMicroTest.cpp" -o Debug\VisualMicroTest.cpp.o" -DVM_DEBUG -DVM_DEBUG_ENABLE=1 -DVM_DEBUG_BANDWIDTH_THROTTLE_MS=50 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_HARDWARESERIAL=0 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_SOFTWARESERIAL=1 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_FASTSERIAL=2 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_USB=3 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_TEENSY=4 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_UART=5 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_USART=6 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_USBSERIAL=7 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_TTYUART=8 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_NET_CONSOLE=9 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_Uart=10 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_COSA=11 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_CDCSerialClass=12 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_HARDWARESERIAL1=13 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_HARDWARESERIAL2=14 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_HARDWARESERIAL3=15 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_NET_UDP=16 -DVM_DEBUGGER_TYPE=VM_DEBUGGER_TYPE_HARDWARESERIAL -DVM_DEBUG_BREAKPAUSE

Error compiling project sources
Debug build failed for project 'VisualMicroTest'
VisualMicroTest.ino: In function void setup()

VisualMicroTest.ino: 17:16: error: 'MicroDebug' was not declared in this scope
   void setup() {
    debugger: The error shown above might be caused by invalid breakpoint syntax or the board is not yet supported for debugging (pls let us know!)
 

However this code compiles successfully (note the only change is the unused const values are commented out)

//***************************************************
// My config is stored in myPrivateSettings.h file
// if you choose not to use such a file, set this to false:
#define USE_myPrivateSettings true

#if USE_myPrivateSettings == true
#include "/workspace/myPrivateSettings.h"
#else
//create your own myPrivateSettings.h, or edit the following lines:
//const char* WIFI_SSID = "my-wifi-SSID";
//const char* WIFI_PWD = "my-WiFi-PASSWORD";
//const char* DASHBOARD_URL = "/mylink/myfile.json";
//const char* DASHBOARD_HOST = "mydashboardhost.com";
#endif
//***************************************************

void setup()
{

  /* add setup code here */

}

void loop()
{

  /* add main program code here */

}
 

I must be missing something obvious here, as I would not have expected the unused code needing to be commented out to avoid the "'MicroDebug' was not declared" error.

What are your thoughts on this?

I am using Visual Studio 14.0.25341.01 Update 3 and Visual Micro 1701.19.1 (registered user)

Thanks again for your assistance.

Hi,

There has been a number of fixes and additions that should help when compiling in debug mode and also stability  improvements to the way tool chains are discovered.

There is a link to the next release at the top of this post if you want to try it.