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
Supported Distributions (64-bit extended):
- Ubuntu: 22.04, 24.04, 24.10, 25.04
- RHEL: 8, 9, 10
- SLES: 15 SP5, SP6, SP7
- Rocky Linux: 9
- Fedora: 41, 42
- Debian: 11, 12
Additional Support:
- Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS)
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 GPU development, the Intel oneAPI Base Toolkit (includes Intel® oneAPI DPC++/C++ Compiler).
- The driver packages needed for GPU debugging on Linux are described in the Data Center GPU Series Driver Installation and Client GPU Driver Installation pages.
For Windows users
Support for GDB IDE extensions for both Microsoft Visual Studio* and Microsoft Visual Studio Code* has been deprecated as of the Intel® oneAPI Toolkit 2025.2.0 release.
- For GPU development, the latest GPU drivers need to be installed. This can be downloaded from Intel® Arc™ & Iris® Xe Graphics - WHQL - Windows.
- Note: see Installation Guide for Intel® oneAPI Toolkits on how to install the GPU drivers.
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.
See also: