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For Visual Studio 2015 there is a dedicated "GDB Debugger Extension". Apparently its actual name in the marketplace misleadingly is "Visual C++ for IoT Development" but explicitly listed in its description is:

This extension provides a makefile project enables you to debug your native C/C++ code [...] locally on Windows.

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For Visual Studio 2019 no such extension exists, but the Visual Studio Installer offers a component of the same name. Said component does not provides a project type whose name contains "GDB" (or any other recognisable identifier) and checking the available debuggers I see no entry "*GDB*" either.

These are the debuggers listed in my instance:

  • Local Windows Debugger
  • Remote Windows Debugger
  • Web Browser Debugger
  • Web Service Debugger

Here is a Microsoft Learn article detailing how to debug remote Linux projects using a local instance of GDB (among other variants). It lists as its sole prerequisite the workload "Linux development with C++" which I have installed including all optional components.

Like with the older extension, this should provide me with a "*GDB*" debugger ("Remote GDB Debugger" in this screenshot).

How do I get that entry? How can I debug a local, MinGW64-built executable with a local GDB in Visual Studio?

(I can already use gdb in a CLI, but I would like the comfort of the GUI.)

If it becomes easier in later versions of Visual Studio, I can upgrade.

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You have to set the ApplicationType to Linux in the Globals section:

<PropertyGroup Label="Globals">
  <ApplicationType>Linux</ApplicationType>
  <ApplicationTypeRevision>1.0</ApplicationTypeRevision>
</PropertyGroup>
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