gdbserver on OS X -- abandon all hope?

[Bill Burgess <burgess@greeneridge.com>]

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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