[Qt-creator] Remote debugging

[André Pönitz]

On Thursday 19 August 2010 13:04:34 ext Francis Rammeloo wrote:
> 2010/8/19 André Pönitz <andre.poenitz at nokia.com<mailto:andre.poenitz at nokia.com>>
> > Does anyone have an idea what's going wrong?
> 
> The problem is that gdb either cannot access the sources of your project
> or is not properly instructed where to search for it.
> 
> I'd need to have a look at the debugger log (right pane of Windows
> ->Views->Debugger) to make a more educated guess.
> 
> Andre'
> 
> PS: Does the "Sources" view look ok?
> 
> This is probably it. The sources view does list all the source files, but they are greyed out.
> 
> Our project directory looks like this:
> 
> ./include/
> ./include/library1/
> ./include/library2/
> ./include/...
> ./src/
> ./src/library1
> ./src/library2
> ./src/...
> ./src/source1.cpp
> ./src/source2.cpp
> ./src/...
> 
> The Qt project was created in the project root directory. However, the debugger "Sources" view contains entries like:
> 
> ../../../src/observer/observer.h
> 
> I don't know why, perhaps it has something to do with the way our makefile buildsystem works.

The paths stored in the binaries are usually relative to the position from
where the compiler process was started.


> dScriptFile: /home/francis/svn/byteblower/debugging/gdbinit  (default: )
> [...]
> >&"source /home/francis/svn/byteblower/debugging/gdbinit\n"
> t12:47:17.024
> >~"************************** file /home/francis/svn/byteblower/debugging/server/src/byteblower \n"
> t12:47:17.403
> >~"************************** set annotate 1 \n"

"set annotate 1" ? Why?

Anyway, since you already use a custom initialization you should be
able to put a  "set substitute-path <from> <to>" there to give gdb
the opportunity to update its idea of the location of the source files.

That should actually fix the original issue.

Andre'