Having trouble with particle debug

[Punkster81]

Hi i was having trouble using the particle debugger in the VS ide, when running it tells me these errors

Launching GDB: "C:\\Users\\name\\.particle\\toolchains\\gcc-arm\\9.2.1\\bin\\arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe" -q --interpreter=mi2
    IMPORTANT: Set "showDevDebugOutput": "raw" in "launch.json" to see verbose GDB transactions here. Very helpful to debug issues or report problems
Launching gdb-server: "C:\\Users\\name\\.particle\\toolchains\\openocd\\0.11.0-particle.4\\bin\\openocd.exe" -c "gdb_port 50000" -c "tcl_port 50001" -c "telnet_port 50002" -s "C:\\Users\\name\\.particle\\toolchains\\openocd\\0.11.0-particle.4\\share\\openocd\\scripts" -f "c:/Users/name/.vscode/extensions/marus25.cortex-debug-1.12.1/support/openocd-helpers.tcl" -f "interface\\cmsis-dap.cfg" -f "target\\stm32f2x.cfg" -c "CDRTOSConfigure FreeRTOS"
    Please check TERMINAL tab (gdb-server) for output from C:\Users\name\.particle\toolchains\openocd\0.11.0-particle.4\bin\openocd.exe
Finished reading symbols from objdump: Time: 109 ms
C:\Users\name\.particle\toolchains\gcc-arm\9.2.1\bin\arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe: warning: Couldn't determine a path for the index cache directory.
ERROR: GDB major version should be >= 9, yours is 8
GDB session ended. exit-code: 0
GDB could not start as expected. Bad installation or version mismatch. See if you can start gdb from a shell prompt and check its version (Must be >= 9)

Im pretty sure it has something to do with my version of gdb off the last couple of lines of errors, but everywhere i look online leads me to a dead end, Im doing this on windows if that is at all relevant it seemed like alot of the solution online were suggesting using linux

Thanks for any help

[rickkas7]

The most likely reason is that there is a copy of GDB 8 in your path from a different build tool or possibly an older version. The easiest solution is to search for "arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe". The copies in .particle/toolschains/gcc-arm are fine, there could be 9.2.1 and a 10.something version in that directory, but pay attention to anything that's in a different directory.

Some possibilities include bin directories for Cygwin, mingw, wsl, or a toolchain for a non-Particle board. First try renaming suspect binaries, such as by renaming the file by adding an 8 at the end of the filename. You could also try reordering your environment include paths.

[Punkster81]

I think i have the correct path at the top of my env

but i'm still getting the same error

[rickkas7]

That's weird. If you use Particle: Launch CLI to open a CLI window, what happens when you do:

arm-none-eabi-gdb --version

[Punkster81]

[Punkster81]

my path mightve not saved after i took the photo it is currently this,

this is the reponse i got with my path being this

[Punkster81]

ok it seems that the 9.2.1 doesnt have the arm-none-eabi-gdb file in it
its in 10.2.1
but when i try to debug it uses the 9.2.1 route