compiling gdb to talk to cross-compiled gdbserver

[Bill Gatliff]

David:


Try something like this:


$ CC=mipsel-linux-gcc ../gcc-x.y.z/configure --host=mipsel-linux
$ cd gdb/gdbserver
$ CC=mipsel-linux-gcc make all


That's the general idea, anyway.  It's been a while.

b.g.


Syed Faisal Akber wrote:

>From what I remember you need to create symlinks for the target and host
>header files after you have run configure for GDB itself.
>
>Then run configure and compile gdbserver.  You may want to look for howto
>documents for gdbserver and uClinux.  That should lead you into the right
>direction.
>
>From my experience you may need to add more code to it depending on the
>platform for it to properly talk to the OS for various special funcitons.
>
>73,
>Faisal Akber
>
>On Tue, 16 Nov 2004, David Wuertele wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Hi Syed, thanks for the tips:
>>
>>Syed> On the host machine run:
>>Syed> mipsel-elf-gdb <remote-program>
>>Syed> (gdb) target remote /dev/ttyS0
>>
>>What I'm really looking for is how to compile "mipsel-elf-gdb".  I
>>have tried "./configure --target=mipsel-abc-linux-gnu" but it doesn't
>>seem to work.
>>
>>Dave
>>
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