I have been using the LLVM project's lldb-vscode extension locally on my Ubuntu box for quite some time successfully. I followed the steps at the README and it works flawlessly. It involves copying both lldb-server and lldb-vscode binaries plus the provided package.json file into the proper locations under $HOME/.vscode/extensions.
But when I open Visual Studio Code on my laptop and open (remotely) the same project I was debugging successfully on the Ubuntu box, the extension does not appear and I cannot debug. The debug configuration type "lldb-vscode" now shows up with red squiggles underneath. The message says "The debug type is not recognized".
I suspect the "$HOME/.vscode" folder is not scanned by vscode when working from a remote.
So the questions are:
Am I goofing somewhere?
How to enable this extension remotely?
It turns out the issue is very simple.
Local user extensions are installed at "$HOME/.vscode" and remote extensions are installed on "$HOME/.vscode-server/extensions".
It was just a matter of creating a softlink from the later to the former as in
$ cd ~/.vscode-server/extensions
$ ln -s ~/.vscode/extensions/llvm-org.lldb-vscode-0.1.0 llvm-org.lldb-vscode-0.1.0
$ ls -1
llvm-org.lldb-vscode-0.1.0 -> /home/fred/.vscode/extensions/llvm-org.lldb-vscode-0.1.0
ms-vscode.cpptools-1.12.4-linux-x64
UPDATE 10/10/2022: An issue has been created on Github and a documentation patch has been submitted to LLVM to alert new users.