Re: Building gdbserver

Claude Robitaille via Gdb
2022-04-17T15:13:09Z

Making progress. But it is still not successful.

I get this:

make[1]: Entering directory '/mnt/data/sbox/tools/gdbserver.build/gdbserver'
CXX alloc.o
In file included from ../../binutils-gdb/gdbserver/../gdbsupport/common-defs.h:197,
from ../../binutils-gdb/gdbserver/../gdb/alloc.c:37:
../../binutils-gdb/gdbserver/../gdbsupport/gdb_locale.h:27:11: fatal error: libintl.h: No such file or directory
27 | # include <libintl.h>

The include file exists and is here:
gdbserver.build/intl/libintl.h

An include directory is missing?

PS
I took the instruction that I implemented from this wiki page: https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingCrossGDBandGDBserver
I guess it should be removed or amended to refer to the readme file.
BuildingCrossGDBandGDBserver - GDB Wiki - sourceware.org<https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/BuildingCrossGDBandGDBserver>
1. Problem statement "I have a ARM GNU/Linux board, and I want to be able to debug programs running in it, from the comfort of my x86_64 GNU/Linux machine.
sourceware.org

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From: Shahab Vahedi <shahab.vahedi@gmail.com>
Sent: April 17, 2022 6:23 AM
To: Claude Robitaille <claude-robitaille@hotmail.com>
Cc: Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Building gdbserver

Hi Claude,

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 03:35:52AM +0000, Claude Robitaille via Gdb wrote:
> Hi, I am trying to cross compile gdbserver.
>
> I am using this little script I did:
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> #source in binutils-gdb
>
> mkdir gdbserver.build
> cd gdbserver.build
>
> ../binutils-gdb/gdbserver/configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
> make
>
>
> But I get this error at the beginning of make
>
> Makefile:110: ../gnulib/Makefile.gnulib.inc: No such file or directory
> make: *** No rule to make target '../gnulib/Makefile.gnulib.inc'. Stop.
>
> I did try different with different release but most of them don't even go that far; is gdbserver new in binutils-gdb? Is it supposed to be compilable?

You have to use the top level configure. Something along the lines:

$ cd gdbserver.build
$ ../binutils-gdb/configure --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
$ make all-gdbserver
$ make install-gdbserver DESTDIR=<whatever_makes_sense_for_you>

You can find more details in gdbserver's README file [1].

Cheers,
Shahab

[1]
https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsourceware.org%2Fgit%2F%3Fp%3Dbinutils-gdb.git%3Ba%3Dblob%3Bf%3Dgdbserver%2FREADME%3Bhb%3DHEAD%23l81&amp;data=04%7C01%7C%7Ca6fca4ea6eef4bd1957b08da205c5ada%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637857878273773854%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&amp;sdata=amHKGcOXi5MxTfRzIHT1OhOiN1rjYQPZcpUHBhAWuec%3D&amp;reserved=0