Raspberry Pi Pico Support

VisualGDB supports the Raspberry Pi Pico devices by directly integrating with the PicoSDK framework. VisualGDB’s PicoSDK projects have the same project structure as the VS Code PicoSDK projects (or projects created manually) and generally produce the same results.

Starting from VisualGDB 6.1, you can use the same toolchains and auxiliary tools (e.g. picotool) as used by the VS Code extension. This is achieved by picking “Toolchains from PicoSDK” in the toolchain selector:

You can review the PicoSDK checkouts and auxiliary tools used by them via Tools->VisualGDB->Manage VisualGDB Packages->Vendor-Specific Tools->PicoSDK:VisualGDB’s Smart Terminal is fully aware of the PicoSDK tools. You can open the terminal for a PicoSDK-based project and directly run tools like picotool: