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BartmanAbyss
vscode-amiga-debug
C2022–2025
BartmanAbyss / vscode-amiga-debug

vscode-amiga-debug

One-stop Visual Studio Code Extension to compile, debug and profile Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 15.2 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE.

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440GitHub stars
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What it is

One-stop Visual Studio Code Extension to compile, debug and profile Amiga C/C++ programs compiled by the bundled gcc 15.2 with the bundled WinUAE/FS-UAE.

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Observed mentions: 2022-10-14 08:42:02 UTC to 2025-11-18 19:27:54 UTC.

01232022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20222023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20232024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025

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20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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GCC cross-compiling for the Amiga is available from https://franke.ms/git/bebbo/amiga-gcc for a standalone toolchain, and https://github.com/BartmanAbyss/vscode-amiga-debug for one that requires VSCode. I'm not aware of any working LLVM solution? All I know is that LLVM supports MC680x0 as a backend, can spit out 68k-but-non-amiga-objects and some brave souls have trying to use vlink or mold to produce Amiga executables. Have you seen any working LLVM-based Amiga (680x0 in hunk format) cross-compilers in the wild?
In Unofficial "Tier 4" Rust Target for older Windows versions
Amiga is a broad term: what chipset etc.? What I really highly advise is this MS Studio Code Plugin: https://github.com/BartmanAbyss/vscode-amiga-debug For me a revelation in ease of use. Hit compile and run - and it does in an emulator. You can use C or Assembler. The author is a well-known scene contributor since the 80th, and does a hell of a job with this nice IDE. Best tool and workflow for someone like me, who only casually writes some not so leetcode Amiga 500 ECS demos these days.
In Roguecraft Devs on Developing for Amiga in 2024
As the original author wrote, assembler is top level leet-ness. However, we aren't in our teenager years anymore and cannot spend holidays hacking our Amigas, so time constraint is a thing. To be honest, assembler coding was always tedious to say the least. Debugging, Gurus, just to name a few in inconveniences. This opened a chance for Amos. If you have a look at today's leet-ness, have a look a The Black Lotus. They do everything with a cross-development pipeline, they even forked Amiga UAE to streamline their process. TBL is really top notch Amiga coding, fantastic stuff. Amos and cross-development compile to machine code in the end. Besides that it is about easing things. For reference, here is Abyss' fantastic project: https://github.com/BartmanAbyss/vscode-amiga-debug
In Using an Amiga in 2021: Making an intro

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