A guide telling how to set up remote debug

1. GDB remote debugger
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2. Agenda
• What is GDB
• Environment
• Cross compile
• Remote debugger setup
• Notes

3. GDB
GDB, the GNU Project debugger
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.5.tar.gz

4. Environment
GDB
Ptrace Application
GDB Server
Local Debug
Remote Debug

5. Cross compile
• Create GDBServer for ARM
 Move to gdb-7.5/gdb/gdbserver
 ./configure --target=arm-linux --host=arm-linux
 make CC=/opt/arm-tools/arm-2009q1/bin/arm-none-linux-gnueabi-gcc
• Create GDB for ARM
 Move to gdb-7.5 folder
 ./configure --target=arm-linux --prefix=/opt/arm-gdb
 sudo make install
 arm-linux-gdb is created for host

6. Remote debugger setup
Host setting
 Connect GDB with local symbol
/opt/arm-gdb/bin/arm-linux-gdb helloworld
Target setting
 Put GDBServer and Application to target
 Start GDBServer
gdbserver :local-port helloworld
Host setting
 Connect target from GDB
target remote target-ip:target-port

7. Notes
• Please compile your codes with -g for debug
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