gdbserver on OS X -- abandon all hope?

gdbserver on OS X -- abandon all hope?

[Bill Burgess]

Hello,

Four years ago the question of gdbserver on OS X came up here, but  
with no joy.  Hoping that surely this situation had changed I  
downloaded the source today, but gdbserver will still only configure  
for Linux targets.

I guess it must be hard or someone would have done it by now?  What a  
shame, I can compile for my ARM target under Eclipse in OS X but it  
looks like Windows/USB-JTAG will be necessary to debug it.  On the  
other hand perhaps it will save me a bundle as there's no point in my  
getting ARM's newly-gdbserver-compatible RealView ICE JTAG adapter.

And no, there's nothing at Apple regarding gdbserver except blindly  
copied FSF documentation.  Not a single hit in the Apple discussion  
forums.  And nothing I can find anywhere on Tiger OS X 10.4.  Now, in  
fact there are gdbserver sources located at Apple:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/DevToolsNov2005/gdb-434/ 
src/gdb/gdbserver/

...but the configure.srv file lists only Linux targets.  Probably  
blindly copied (like the documentation) and never built.

Is it time to abandon all hope?

Thanks,
--Bill


William C. Burgess, Ph.D.
Senior Research Engineer
Greeneridge Sciences, Inc.
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RE: gdbserver on OS X -- abandon all hope?

[Dave Korn]

On 18 April 2006 06:31, Bill Burgess wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Four years ago the question of gdbserver on OS X came up here, but
> with no joy.  Hoping that surely this situation had changed I
> downloaded the source today, but gdbserver will still only configure
> for Linux targets.
> 
> I guess it must be hard or someone would have done it by now?  What a
> shame, I can compile for my ARM target under Eclipse in OS X but it
> looks like Windows/USB-JTAG will be necessary to debug it.  On the
> other hand perhaps it will save me a bundle as there's no point in my
> getting ARM's newly-gdbserver-compatible RealView ICE JTAG adapter.
> 
> And no, there's nothing at Apple regarding gdbserver except blindly
> copied FSF documentation.  Not a single hit in the Apple discussion
> forums.  And nothing I can find anywhere on Tiger OS X 10.4.  Now, in
> fact there are gdbserver sources located at Apple:
> 
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/DevToolsNov2005/gdb-434/
> src/gdb/gdbserver/
> 
> ...but the configure.srv file lists only Linux targets.  Probably
> blindly copied (like the documentation) and never built.
> 
> Is it time to abandon all hope?
> 
> Thanks,
> --Bill


  Sorry, can you just clarify something:  if you're cross-compiling for and
debugging an ARM target, why would you need to configure gdbserver for OS X?
As far as I understand it you run gdbserver on the target and would only need
to run plain old gdb itself on your Mac.
 


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....

Re: gdbserver on OS X -- abandon all hope?

[Bill Burgess]

On Apr 18, 2006, at 3:29 AM, Dave Korn wrote:

> Sorry, can you just clarify something:  if you're cross-compiling  
> for and
> debugging an ARM target, why would you need to configure gdbserver  
> for OS X?
> As far as I understand it you run gdbserver on the target and would  
> only need
> to run plain old gdb itself on your Mac.

Wow...I think you are right.  I went back and re-read the  
documentation and
it does make more sense when read with your point of view.  I had  
somehow
understood that gdb does not have built-in networking code, so that
it would need gdbserver to handle networking for it.  Sounds silly  
now doesn't it?
If only the documentation had hit me over the head with something like
"gdbserver resides on the the remote target" although it does come
embarrassingly close to saying just that.

Thanks for your response.  I've never been so happy to be wrong!

--Bill