eclipse-cdt debugging doesn't work on FreeBSD 7.0 amd64?

Stephane E. Potvin sepotvin at FreeBSD.org
Tue Nov 11 08:58:23 PST 2008


Moonkyung Ryu wrote:
> Thanks a lot Stephane!
> 
> I finally installed eclipse-devel and succeeded in debugging.
> But I have a question.
> Which debugger option do you usually use?
> There are 3 debugger options
> 1. gdb/mi
> 2. gdb Debugger
> 3. gdbserver Debugger
> 
> To me, 3 doesn't work. I guess 3 is for remote debugging.
> And then, what is the difference between 1 and 2?
> 

You're right for #3, gdbserver is used to do remote debugging.
As for gdb/mi, it's the machine interface of gdb. It's easier to use 
programmatically than the human interface. If the gdb you're using 
supports it (which is the case on FreeBSD), you're better off using 
gdb/mi with Eclipse.

Steph


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