OS X cross-debugging from Linux?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 07:36:03PM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> Greetings, I have just joined the list.
> 
> I want to develop a Mac OS X device driver.  One can debug the OS X kernel 
> using GDB as a cross-debugger between two machines over ethernet.  Apple 
> has a page that describes how to do it here:
> 
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/documentation/howto/html/KEXT_Tutorials/HelloDebugger.html
> 
> However, this assumes both machines are running OS X and using the version 
> of GDB that Apple provides.

I'm going to wager that Apple's GDB will build OK on a Linux host. 
It's hard to say without actually trying it, though :)  Just
configuring with appropriate --target= should suffice.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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