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gdbserver on OS X -- abandon all hope?
- From: Bill Burgess <burgess at greeneridge dot com>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 22:31:22 -0700
- Subject: gdbserver on OS X -- abandon all hope?
Hello,
Four years ago the question of gdbserver on OS X came up here, but
with no joy. Hoping that surely this situation had changed I
downloaded the source today, but gdbserver will still only configure
for Linux targets.
I guess it must be hard or someone would have done it by now? What a
shame, I can compile for my ARM target under Eclipse in OS X but it
looks like Windows/USB-JTAG will be necessary to debug it. On the
other hand perhaps it will save me a bundle as there's no point in my
getting ARM's newly-gdbserver-compatible RealView ICE JTAG adapter.
And no, there's nothing at Apple regarding gdbserver except blindly
copied FSF documentation. Not a single hit in the Apple discussion
forums. And nothing I can find anywhere on Tiger OS X 10.4. Now, in
fact there are gdbserver sources located at Apple:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/DevToolsNov2005/gdb-434/
src/gdb/gdbserver/
...but the configure.srv file lists only Linux targets. Probably
blindly copied (like the documentation) and never built.
Is it time to abandon all hope?
Thanks,
--Bill
William C. Burgess, Ph.D.
Senior Research Engineer
Greeneridge Sciences, Inc.
6060 Graham Hill Road Stop F
Felton, CA 95018
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