{"id":9074,"date":"2025-12-13T15:05:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/?p=9074"},"modified":"2025-12-13T15:05:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:05:50","slug":"raspberry-pi-pico-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/documentation\/picosdk\/picotool\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi Pico Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VisualGDB supports the Raspberry Pi Pico devices by directly integrating with the PicoSDK framework. VisualGDB&#8217;s PicoSDK projects have the same project structure as the VS Code PicoSDK projects (or projects created manually) and generally produce the same results.<\/p>\n<p>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 &#8220;Toolchains from PicoSDK&#8221; in the toolchain selector:<a href=\"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/07-sdk-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9070\" src=\"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/07-sdk-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"856\" height=\"693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/07-sdk-1.png 856w, https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/07-sdk-1-300x243.png 300w, https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/07-sdk-1-768x622.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 856px) 100vw, 856px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can review the PicoSDK checkouts and auxiliary tools used by them via <strong>Tools-&gt;VisualGDB-&gt;Manage VisualGDB Packages-&gt;Vendor-Specific Tools-&gt;PicoSDK<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tools-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9075\" src=\"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tools-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1186\" height=\"793\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tools-2.png 1186w, https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tools-2-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tools-2-1024x685.png 1024w, https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tools-2-768x514.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1186px) 100vw, 1186px\" \/><\/a>VisualGDB&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/documentation\/terminal\/\">Smart Terminal<\/a> is fully aware of the PicoSDK tools. You can open the terminal for a PicoSDK-based project and directly run tools like <strong>picotool<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/16-picotool.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9072\" src=\"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/16-picotool.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1288\" height=\"812\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/16-picotool.png 1288w, https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/16-picotool-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/16-picotool-1024x646.png 1024w, https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/16-picotool-768x484.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VisualGDB supports the Raspberry Pi Pico devices by directly integrating with the PicoSDK framework. VisualGDB&#8217;s PicoSDK projects have the same<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9076,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9074\/revisions\/9076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visualgdb.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}