Lua Remote Debugger for Visual Studio Code

Allows debugging embedded Lua VMs through Visual Studio Code.

Features

• Supports Windows, macOS and Linux
• Add/remove breakpoints
• Conditional breakpoints
• Continue, pause, step over, step in, step out
• View and modify Local, global, _ENV, upvalue variables and arguments
• Watch window
• Evaluate expressions
• Remote debugging over TCP
• Multiple debug sessions possible at the same time
• New view in debug: Lua Remote Debugger - VMs. This is polling the ports from 21110 to 21120 on localhost to find any actively running session.

Requirements

One of those lua Remote Debugger:

• Garry's Mod Lua Remote Debugger
• Lua Remote Debugger

Usage

Start the debugger server in your embedded Lua, then attach VS Code to it.

How to use:

• in BeamNG
• in Garry's Mod

Development

Please see the developer docs if you want to work on this

Changelog

v0.5.4

• Fixed tables missing keys due to assuming that a Lua table was an "array" like table when it was really a "dictionary" table
• Integer, boolean, and table type keys are now able to be viewed in "dictionary" like tables (before it was only string keys)

v0.5.3

• Initial release!

Credits

Thank you very much to everyone working on this tech in open source team effort! :)

Based on the work from:

• danielga/vscode-gmrdb
• satoren/vscode-lrdb
• kapecp/vscode-lrdb