Debugging with STLink

[dhvani]

i am trying to see debug logs of the patch.init module with built in Serial monitor in VSCode but i do not see any logs. i have gone through most of the present discussions on this forum around debugging and have tried all of the suggestions but with no luck on seeing any output. i am able to flash my patches properly but can’t see any logs in the monitor. any suggestions on what i could be missing in configuration?

[tele_player]

Try patch.StartLog(true).
This waits until USB terminal is connected before continuing.

Note: the STLINK is not used for serial monitoring, so you’ll need two USB cables: one for STLINK to upload and debug, and the other for serial Log output.

[dhvani]

i was using semihosting to see debug logs through ST Link but that didn’t work

thanks! i’ll get another USB for the serial output

[tele_player]

It’s never been clear to me how to get semihosting to work. It’s a nice idea, though.

[dhvani]

Logging/ST-Link

Hi! So, i’m able to flash my daisy pod successfully with build_and_program (make clean; make; make program). But, for the sake of troubleshooting, I’m trying to just log simple outlooks and nothing works for me. I’ve tried the Logger<> logger class, and i’ve tried just using pod.seed.PrintLine("foobar"). I’ve actually used both methods in the past when I didn’t have the ST-Link debugger, and they worked fine, but now that I’m using the ST-Link debugger, I can’t seem to log. I’m able to see …

this thread here discusses how to use semihosting but it didn’t work for me
you can try and see if you can make it work