CLion Debugging

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Hello,

I just tried to install the CLion integration according to CLion — PlatformIO latest documentation.

I’d like to use it for an ESP32 project. I tried to debug my project with the esp-wrover-kit board. Unfortunately I am unable to find the SVD file mentioned in the documentation linked above anywhere. It’s not in the .platformio/platforms/espressif32 folder nor linked in any CMAKE variable.

I think without the file debugging is quite useless, isn’t it?

Can you lead me to the right direction please?

Thanks and regards
Jens

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No, why? Without an SVD files you don’t get the pretty list of the peripheral register values. Debugging still works perfectly normal with variable inspection, line-by-line stepping etc. This is a purely an addition to normal debugging.

This is an issue on Espressif’s side since they don’t provide one. See Provide *.SVD for use with editors (IDFGH-299) · Issue #2214 · espressif/esp-idf · GitHub and Fix detection of some registers · Issue #6 · MabezDev/idf2svd · GitHub.

There are currently community-made converter tools written in Rust to convert Espressif’s header files into SVD files. See GitHub - MabezDev/idf2svd. There also seems to be a more corrected version with a base file + patches at GitHub - esp-rs/esp32: Peripheral access crate for the ESP32.

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Thanks for your reply.

I will try debugging without the SVD file. Obviously I misunderstood its importance.

Out of interest I just tried to create a SVD file with the tools you linked. But idf2svd didn’t work. Lot’s of regex errors. Did you get it to work? Unfortunately I am not really into Rust, so I don’t know what’s happening there. :smiley:

Edit: Just had a closer look at GitHub - esp-rs/esp32: Peripheral access crate for the ESP32. That one seems to work and looks good. I will report back, when I tried it from Clion.

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If you will have working SVD, please make a PR to GitHub - platformio/platform-espressif32: Espressif 32: development platform for PlatformIO

We would be thankful! See example platform-atmelsam/misc/svd at develop · platformio/platform-atmelsam · GitHub

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It seems to work with CLion. I created a PR Add SVD for ESP32 (wrover kit) by jenswet · Pull Request #325 · platformio/platform-espressif32 · GitHub

I’ve put the latest svd generated from the GitHub - esp-rs/esp32: Peripheral access crate for the ESP32 repo.

If I need to change anything please tell me. The svd gets added to CMakeListsPrivate.txt of CLion as expected when I copy the changed boards information and svd to my local installation.

I think the same SVD should work with other boards too, because they are all ESP32. Should we add it to other debug configurations too?

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