dbg MI help required !

dbg MI help required !

[Mickael Gicquaire]

Hi there!
I am trying to figure out how to use MI and what it is for and to be honest i
am not getting anywhere.
first i made a native solaris gdb with the following command:
./configure --with-gdb-interpreter=mi
I ran make after and gdb was built but none of the c files in the mi directory
were compiled.

So what do i do next?
i thought mi would be a library and gdbmi would need that library in order to
support the tidy textual output that mi if i understand properly is supposed to
achieve.

How do i make get gdbmi ?


cheers mickael

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Re: dbg MI help required !

[Andrew Cagney]

> So what do i do next?
> i thought mi would be a library and gdbmi would need that library in order to
> support the tidy textual output that mi if i understand properly is supposed to
> achieve.


It is work in progress.

The MI is just one shaky step along a path to create a GDB library.  If 
you look at the MI command set then you should have a pretty good feel 
for what the underlying functions will be.

	Andrew

Re: dbg MI help required !

[Jim Ingham]

Mickael,

The configure option is:

configure --enable-gdbmi=yes

As an aside, it is a lot more convenient to build the gdb tree in a tree 
parallel to the sources.  Since the configure process generates c-files, 
makes links, etc, it is good not to mess up your source tree with 
them...  I usually have:

source/configure
source/gdb
source/bfd
source/readline
...

then parallel to this make a directory

build/

then cd into build and do:

../source/configure --enable-gdbmi=yes

Anyway, once you have a gdb built with the mi enabled, then you do:

gdb -i mi

Hope this helps,

Jim


>
> Hi there!
> I am trying to figure out how to use MI and what it is for and to be 
> honest i
> am not getting anywhere.
> first i made a native solaris gdb with the following command:
> ./configure --with-gdb-interpreter=mi
> I ran make after and gdb was built but none of the c files in the mi 
> directory
> were compiled.
>
> So what do i do next?
> i thought mi would be a library and gdbmi would need that library in 
> order to
> support the tidy textual output that mi if i understand properly is 
> supposed to
> achieve.
>
> How do i make get gdbmi ?
>
>
> cheers mickael

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Re: dbg MI help required !

[Andrew Cagney]

> The configure option is:
> 
> configure --enable-gdbmi=yes


Just FYI, is no longer required using the current source base.  MI is 
enabled by default.  So just this:

 > gdb -i mi

is all that is needed.

	Andrew