Remote Debugging

[Fernando Nasser]

Yu Xuanwei wrote:
> 
> Hi, Folks:
> 
> I am a rookie. I want to know something about remote debugging:
> 
> 1. On target: The gdbserver manipulates target application, which is
> stripped.
> 
> 2. On host: GDB run "target remote ..." to customize the target.
> 
> Then where is the symbol file for target application? Should I native
> compile the target application on host? Or ...?
> 

Nope.  You cross compile your executable with "-g".  Create a stripped copy 
(not necessary if you don't care about file sizes in the target) and copy
the stripped version to the target.  Load it with gdbserver.

On the host side:  gdb <your-complete-executable-with-debug-info>
and proceed as you mentioned.

But please, before you try to go any further, print a copy of the 
"Debugging with GDB" manual.  It is in the doc directory (you can make it in
various flavors - ps among them).  It is also available as an info topic 
if GDB is correctly installed on your system.

 

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