Intel® Distribution for GDB* System Requirements

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Updated 6/26/2025
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Introduction

This document provides details about hardware, operating system, and software prerequisites for the Intel® Distribution for GDB*.

Supported Host Operating Systems

These OS distributions are tested by Intel or known to work; other distributions may or may not work and are not recommended. If you have questions, access the Intel Community Forums when you need assistance. If you have Commercial Support, create a support ticket.

Linux* Host

  • Linux: Ubuntu* 22.04, 24.04, RHEL 8, RHEL 9, SLES 15 (all 64-bit extended)
  • Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS)

Windows* Host

  • Windows 10/11, 64-bit
  • Intel® oneAPI Base Toolkit installation
  • Intel® HPC Toolkit installation for OpenMP*

Supported Target Hardware Platforms

CPU Processors

  • Intel® Core™ Processor family
  • Intel® Xeon® Processor family
  • Intel® Xeon® Scalable Performance processors

Accelerators

  • GPU Linux: Intel® Arc™ Series, Intel® Data Center GPU Flex Series, and Ponte Vecchio. Integrated GPUs like 'Intel® HD Graphics Gen12' or older are not supported with this release.
  • GPU Windows: Intel® Arc™ Series and Intel® Core™ Ultra with a built-in Intel® Arc™ GPU.

Motherboard Requirements

  • Full-size PCI Express 3.0 (or newer) x16 slot
  • Resizable (Re-Size) BAR

Software Requirements

For Linux users

For Windows users

Development Environment

Microsoft* Visual Studio*

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 or 2022

Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Extensions for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits

The VS Code extensions for oneAPI Toolkits provide assistance to developers who are creating, debugging and profiling oneAPI applications. The Using Visual Studio Code with Intel® oneAPI Toolkits User Guide provides additional detail.

The following VS Code extensions are available in the VS Code marketplace:

  • Code Sample Browser for Intel® Software Developer Tools
  • Environment Configurator for Intel® Software Developer Tools
  • Analysis Configurator for Intel® Software Developer Tools
  • GDB with GPU Debug Support for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits
  • DevCloud Connector for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits

Alternately, you can install the above extensions as a bundle from Extension Pack for Intel Software Developer Tools.

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