VS Code and gdp not communicating when debugging

[Grock-e]

Hi, there I have an issue with the vs code debugger, when I try to debug any c++ (Compiler: gcc, Debugger: gdp) project the debugger returns the output below. However the debugger doesn't run, it exits immediately. (the source code for this, is a simple hello world project )

From what I can understand the program seems to compile fine, however neither the program or debugger appear to run.

below is my tasks.jason and launch.jason.

I have tried changing externalConsole from between true and false and I've tried using the CMakeTools debugger, this yields the same result.

Thanks in advance for anyone who helps out.