Problem: Cannot find SGX Debugger in Visual Studio

[Ka__Marcel]

Hello community,

I'm new in SGX development. I want to debug an Enclave in Visual Studio 17, just as shown in the tutorial video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlWBAuXSPmU, however I don't have the SGX Debugger in the list menu.

It really is a SGX project and simple methods works perfectly, but I'm unable to debug the Enclave part.

Best regards

[Scott_R_Intel · Accepted solution]

Hi Marcel.

Which version of the SGX SDK do you have installed?  VS 2017 debugger (and other) support was not added until version 2.1, and we're currently up to v2.2.100.48339.

Regards.

Scott

[Behera__Shipra]

Hi,

I'm using Visual Studio 2019 and SGX SDK version 2.3. I'm not able to see the Intel SGX debugger on Visual Studio

[Francisco_C_Intel]

Hi Shipra.

Currently VS 2019 is not supported.

Thanks,

Francisco

[SylviaL]

Hi Francisco,

Do you know if VS 2019 now supported?

Thanks

[JesusG_Intel]

Hello SylviaL,

Yes, VS2019 is now supported. The Release Notes for the Intel SGX SDK for Windows 2.12, which is the latest version, report:

Visual Studio 2019 Add-in Tool is designed to work with the Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2019 environment. While Visual Studio* Professional 2019 is the recommended environment, the tools may also be installed with the Community and Enterprise versions of Visual Studio 2019.

Known Issues and Limitations
• The add-in and wizard for Microsoft Visual Studio* 2017 IDE and/or Microsoft Visual Studio* 2019 IDE are also provided separately with vsix as extension name. If it fails to install the add-in or wizard unfortunately, please double click the corresponding vsix files to install them manually.
• Visual Studio 2019 doesn’t support debugging Enclave with wide character Enclave path.
• Visual Studio 2019 doesn’t support debugging 32-bit Enclave.
• SGX SDK doesn’t support the “__CxxFrameHandler4” option for enclave in Visual Studio 2019. Customers need to add “/d2FH4-” into the enclave project settings, if they upgrade their enclave projects from Visual Studio 2017 to Visual Studio 2019.

Sincerely,
Jesus G.
Intel Customer Support

[bashar__golam]

Hello Fransico,

I built a project on SGX in VS 2015. I configured like below:

TArget Platform Version: 10.0.15063.0

Platform Toolset: Visual Studio 2015 - Windows XP (v140_xp)

Debugging-> Debugger Intel (R) SGX  and Working directory is $(OutDir)

There is no error in the code and after running it vanish within seconds. Below is a scrrenshot of output from debug 

[Francisco_C_Intel]

There is a bug in the static library used by that Sample when built in Debug mode and you have an older version of the PSW installed. I think this is the issue you are seeing.

What is the SGX SDK version? What is the SGX PSW version on your system?

Thanks,

Francisco