I’ll be putting the next video up in a couple of days from now, hopefully with less white noise as I’ve sourced a microphone, not sure how brilliant it is but tests have show improvement.

So I’m happy that this works pretty well on both Mac and PC and that from feedback that others have gotten this working too and it’s not just on my machine. I’ve additionally patched up some of the incude folders in the c_cpp_properties.json file and taken out a couple of unrequired include paths that were seemingly left over from somewhere else. This will allow it to finally connect to the already running instance of the mGBA emulator and you can debug the same way that you would on the PC. The fix is to launch the debugger, then once mGBA is up and waiting for a connection on it’s splash screen to stop the debugger with the stop button on the VS debug toolbar, and then press F5 again to relaunch the debugger. This lack of relenquishing control prevents the debuger from launchingin a single click, or press of F5 (or if your MacBook is newer than mine, and that’s not hard, a swipe of the touch bar).

Although mGBA on OS X does refuse to relenquish control to the terminal after it starts, yes even when run as a background process. I’ve not 100% found a fix for this, but mGBA version 0.6.2 Available here works pretty well.

Although as I discovered thanks to a reddit comment, there’s a problem with mGBA’s latest release and gdb debuggin in VS Code. I’ve cleaned up some of the items in the project and I’ve commited some Mac specific changes to the tasks.json, launch.json, and c_cpp_properties.json files to make working on Mac a bit nicer. Ok so a couple of small items that have cropped up since I put up that first YouTube video on the VS Code setup for GBA Dev.

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