Compatibility with Debug: gdbServerPort ignored

[chconil]

Hi there !

I'm a new user to wokwi-cli and so far it has proven to be extremely useful ! Thanks for that :)
One function I've been missing is the ability to connect a debugger to it.

It could be used to :

• Run an automated debug launch (build target, run wokwi-cli, run debugger)
• Run complex CI scenarios where we could check complex usecases, by combining wokwi-cli to gdb scripts.

Is there any plan to get this working?
Thanks!
Christophe

[urish]

Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, we're planning to add this functionality.

Would you mind sharing more about the complex CI scenarios use case? Do you have some specific examples in mind?

Thanks!

[chconil]

That's great news !! :-) The idea behind having GDB run in CI was to develop an end to end automated testing.

Right now we have an app that sends messages to multiple esp32 targets over an MQTT server. I'd set a breakpoint in wokwi, run the MQTT call, break, check variable content, and continue with further tests. But looking a bit further I just saw that's what scenarios are about, and this could actually be enough!

BTW, while the VSCode plugin is useful, I'd put my money in having an offline (/enterprise) version of the CLI. ;-)

[urish]

Thanks for explaining your use case!

But looking a bit further I just saw that's what scenarios are about, and this could actually be enough!

Any luck with getting them to work for the MQTT use case so far?

BTW, while the VSCode plugin is useful, I'd put my money in having an offline (/enterprise) version of the CLI. ;-)

We do have an offline version of the CI server (that's what the CLI connects to), available as a docker container image. Would that be interesting for you?