Debug a Rust Application

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Debugging Rust in VSCode¶

1. Install the extension CodeLLDB .

2. Uncheck “Pause on panic” (checked by default).

Debug Rust Using rust-gdb¶

Debug Rust Using rust-lldb¶

Debug Rust Using rr¶

is a lightweight tool for recording, replaying and debugging execution of applications (trees of processes and threads). Debugging extends gdb with very efficient reverse-execution, which in combination with standard gdb/x86 features like hardware data watchpoints, makes debugging much more fun.

References¶

• Rust Autocomplete and Debugging in VS Code

• Debugging Rust in VSCode

• Debugging Rust with VS Code

• Debugging Rust programs with lldb on MacOS

• Debugging Rust apps with GDB

• Debugging Rust Tests

• How to debug unit test of rust?

• vscode-lldb Manual -- Cargo Support

• How to debug Cargo tests (with CLI or IDE)?