[Qt-creator] "Unhandled Exception" when I try to launch my application in debug mode with gdb.exe

[Andre Poenitz]

On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 10:03:58AM +0100, Dominique Moreau wrote:
> I work with Qt Creator release 1.3.1;
> 
> I target a Symbian device NOKIA 5800;
> 
> I get an "Unhandled Exception" when I try to launch my application in
> debug mode with gdb.exe
> 
> ("An unhandled Win32 exception occured in gdb.exe" is displayed by
> Visual Studio Just-in Time debugger)

It's gdb crashing on you. There is unfortunately not much that can be
done from Qt Creator's side.
 
> The place of the gdb ARM Symbian is defined as follow :  
> 
> C:\Qt\2010.02.0\gdb-arm-symbianelf\gdb.exe
> 
> The version of gdb.exe reported by typing "gdb -version" is :
> 6.4.50.20060226-cvs and this also displays the following message:
> This GDB was configured as "--host = --target=arm-none-symbianelf"
> 
> Can someone help me to solve this?

It would be nice if you could send the contents of the debugger
communication log (right pane of Debug->Views->Debugger).

There is also a somewhat newer version of gdb at
ftp://ftp.qt.nokia.com/misc/gdb/gdb-python-windows-bundle.zip

Andre'