Getting Started
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Select
Run
.
Now the program is executed on the target and you will see the output .
Welcome to the
World of PHYTEC! (serial)
. in the
Microcom
window.
If you want to execute the program the next time, you can use the
Run External Programs
button from the menu bar.
You have successfully created your own
Eclipse
project and you learned
how to execute a program on the target.
2.1.2
Debugging an Example Project
In this chapter you will learn using the
GNU debugger GDB
on the host for remote debug-
ging in conjunction with the
GDB
server on the target.
GDB
is the symbolic debugger of the
GNU
project and is arguably the most important debugging tool for any Linux system.
First you will start the
GDB
server on the target. Then you will configure the
Eclipse
platform and start the
GNU
debugger out of
Eclipse
using the
Debug
view.
The
CDT
extends the standard
Eclipse Debug
view with functions for debugging
C/C++
code. The
Debug
view allows you to manage the debugging and running of a program
in the workbench. Using the
Debug
view you will be able to set breakpoints/watchpoints in
the code and trace variables and registers. The
Debug
view displays the stack frame for the
threads of each target you are debugging. Each thread in your program appears as a node
in the tree, and the
Debug
view displays the process for each target you are running.
The
GDB
client is running on the host and is used to control the
GDB
server on the target,
which in turn controls the application running on the target.
GDB
client and
GDB
server can
communicate over a TCP/IP network connection as well as via a serial interface. In this
Application Guide we will only describe debugging via TCP/IP.
