expose openocdPath in launch.json?..

[busticated]

hi there 👋

very similar request as: #51 and for the same reasons as mentioned in #110

would it be possible to expose the openocdPath setting in launch.json as well?

currently, i end up managing the setting at the workspace level on behalf of my users based on other configuration settings. so the flow is like: 1. tweak seemingly unrelated setting 2. update toolchain paths & dependencies 3. set cortex-debug.openocdPath in the .code-workspace file based on steps 1 and 2.

instead, being able to do something like this in launch.json would be nice:

"openocdPath": "${command:extension.getDebuggerOpenOCDPath}",

i'm running:
macOS: 10.13.6 (high sierra)
VSCode: 1.29.1
Cortex Debug: 0.1.21

[Marus]

This should be added to the next release

[haneefdm]

@Marus, @busticated I am currently using "serverpath" : "..." and it works! If we document and/or add it to IntelliSense, we are golden.

serverpath is generic to any gdb-server including openocd since we can only use one server at a time.

It is becoming more common to make this (and arm tool chain) project-specific even in my use case.

So, in my launch.json, I use toolchainPath and serverpath and use generic things like ${env:USERPROFILE}/... or ${env:HOME}/... to specify paths.

This is mainly because, in settings.json, we cannot make things OS specific. Also a problem with multi-root VSCode workspaces. Global user settings is also an option... just hard to find and edit.

[haneefdm]

For every path mentioned for user/workspace settings, there is now a OS-specific setting. This will work better for users using the sync feature. This is also the method used by VSCode itself. I recommend using this mechanism rather than serverpath to keep things portable. From CHANGELOG.md for V0.4.8

Pathnames for gdb-servers can be OS specific. For instance cortex-debug.openocdPath can be suffixed with one of .linux, .osx or .windows. For instance cortex-debug.openocdPath.windows is used only on Windows and if that is missing, it will default looking for cortex-debug.openocdPath`.