[Qt-creator] Breakpoints do not work when debugging application on 5800 XM device from QtCreator

[Burka Victor]

30.11.09, 17:40, "André Pönitz" <andre.poenitz at nokia.com>:

> On Monday 30 November 2009 17:30:08 ext Burka Victor wrote:
>  > 
>  > 30.11.09, 15:12, "André Pönitz" :
>  > 
>  > > On Monday 30 November 2009 00:14:55 ext Burka Victor wrote:
>  > >  > 29.11.09, 17:47, "Andre Poenitz" :
>  > >  > >  In any case, please post the contents of Debug->Views->Debugger,
>  > >  > >  right pane.
>  > >  
>  > >  Ok thanks.
>  > >  
>  > >  > sReading C:/S60/devices/S60_5th_Edition_SDK_v1.0/epoc32/release/gcce/udeb/analogclock.sym......
>  > >  > >&"Dwarf Error: Could not find abbrev number 18644 [in module C:/S60/devices/S60_5th_Edition_SDK_v1.0/epoc32/release/gcce/udeb/analogclock.sym]\n"
>  > >  
>  > >  That might be the reason that your breakpoints are not hit. The message
>  > >  usually means the debugging information is corrupted - or not properly
>  > >  assembled by the toolchain for that matter.
>  > >  
>  > >  I don't really know what is causing it. We had similar problems with older 
>  > >  versions of MinGW gdb on Windows XP 64 a while ago, and given that
>  > >  the gdb available for Symbian is also only based on gdb 6.4 it might
>  > >  actually be the same issue.
>  > >  
>  > >  On what system is your Creator running?
>  > 
>  > Windows XP SP3. 
>  > Qt Creator 1.3 RC1 (1.2.94 based on Qt 4.6.0).
>  > Qt 4.6.0 RC1.
>  
>  32 or 64 bit?

Sorry. It is 32 bit.

>  
>  > Andre, did you have the breakpoints working fine with Qt 4.6.0 RC1 
>  > on any QtCreator or Carbide.c++ using GCCE and linking your Qt 
>  > application with Qt binaries for Symbian that Nokia provides on their web site ?
>  
>  I had breakpoints working fine (i.e. apart from the "usual" brokenness
>  of breakpoints in constructors with old gdb) with Qt Creator and a 
>  GCCE compiled application from a Linux host at some point of time.

It sounds like quite interesting. I read that there is no official support of development for Symbian on Linux - just on Windows. Can you give me any link to resources how to setup the environment, which tools to use, etc. ?

>  
>  However, I did neither check the RC1 binaries for that use case nor 
>  did I do any testing under Windows.
>