[Qt-creator] Debug on Remote *Windows* Device using MinGW

[Denis Shienkov]

> This and all the following problems you mention indicate that you are
using a RemoteLinux type of kit.

Yes. It is.. I know. :)

But it will be nice to have this feature and on Windows (I mean about
remote debugging).

> Surely there's some stderr output somewhere?

I do not see any output.

BR,
Denis



2015-03-03 12:08 GMT+03:00 Christian Kandeler <
christian.kandeler at theqtcompany.com>:

> On 03/02/2015 09:53 PM, Denis Shienkov wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I want to debug a remote Windows device, using the MinGW. The both
> > HostOS and Target OS is Windows.
> > I know about the option "Attach to Remote Debug Server" in QtCreator,
> > but this option is unaceptable to me,
> > because I has not a direct access to the target PC. I want to use
> > something similar to "Generic Linux Device",
> > but for Windows. The reason is that the target device has not a
> > keyboard, mouse, and has the small displays
> > with the high resolution.
> >
> > I tried following:
> >
> > * Install the Qt5.4 (MinGW) on remote PC.
> > * Install the FreeSSHd (it is a free SSH server) on remote PC.
> > * Install the Cygwin (it is to emulate a Unix env) on remote PC.
> > * Create a new "Remote Generic Linux" configuration from the local
> > QtCreator.
> > * From the FreeSSHd  settings I specify the Cygwin's bash.exe executable
> > as the shell.
> > * Trying to connect to remote PC via Putty to ensure that the SSH works
> > correctly.
> > * On a remote PC, the  Qt5.4, MinGW, Cygwin are passed to the global
> > PATH env.
> >
> > But all attempts to debug are fails.
> >
> > First issue - it is that "Check for fre space" fails with error:
> >
> > "
> > :-1: error: Unexpected output from remote process: "df: unknown option
> -- n
> > Try 'df --help' for more information."
>
> This and all the following problems you mention indicate that you are
> using a RemoteLinux type of kit. You simply can't expect this to work
> for a Windows host. *Maybe* you can force it somehow with a lot of
> tweaks, but you are really on your own here.
>
>  > Third issue - even to do copying of target executable to the remote
>  > PC manually (and to delete the upload steps), then then this also
>  > fails with the messagebox:
>  > "Adapter start failed
>  > Initial setup failed: Remote process failed; exit code was 2
>
> Surely there's some stderr output somewhere?
>
>
> Christian
>
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