Re: debug-problem with cygwin-linux-cross

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

On 12/8/05, Wedde, Thomas <thomas.wedde@hfwk.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> hope that is the right group for my problem:

Here or the gdb mailing list are good.

> I compiled a cross toolchain with crosstools 0.38 (thx Dan !)
> - gcc 3.3.3
> - glibc 3.2.3
> - binutils 2.15
> - host&build: i686-cygwin-linux
> - target : i386-linux-gnu
> Under WinXP with cygwin an it runs without problems.
>
> After the compilation I was a little confused about the output path
> structure
> (C:\cygwin\opt\crosstool\gcc-3.3.3-glibc-2.3.2\i386-unknown-linux-gnu\i386-unknown-linux-gnu\bin -> contained the tools from cygwin
> C:\cygwin\opt\crosstool\gcc-3.3.3-glibc-2.3.2\i386-unknown-linux-gnu\bin -> contained the new toolchain
> C:\cygwin\opt\crosstool\gcc-3.3.3-glibc-2.3.2\i386-unknown-linux-gnu\include
> was nearly empty but some includefiles where needed so I copied them to
> C:\cygwin\opt\crosstool\gcc-3.3.3-glibc-2.3.2\i386-unknown-linux-gnu\i386-unknown-linux-gnu\inlcude
> and so on...)

You shouldn't need to do that... what happens if you don't?

> If I want to debug my application with gdbserver on the target and gdb
> 6.0 on my cygwin host I get several errors:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function.
> GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers
> and track explicitly loaded dynamic code.
> Error while mapping shared library sections:
> /lib/libstdc++.so.5: No such file or directory.  ...
> Error while reading shared library symbols:
> Stopped due to shared library event
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2: No such file or directory.
> Reply contains invalid hex digit 78 ...
>
> Seems that it can not find those libs although they are present (and I
> added the path to them to the linker options)
> I tried to copy them around, for example to cygwin/usr/lib, but this
> doesn't help.
> If I do : i386-unknown-linux-gnu-ld --verbose | grep SEARCH
> The answer is: SEARCH_DIR("=usr/local/lib"); SEARCH_DIOR("=/lib");
> SEARCH_DIOR("=usr/lib")

Did you read
  http://www.kegel.com/linux/gdbserver.html
?

> Although I can step-trough my program at termination of it, gdb always
> return the "Reply contains invalid hex digit 78" and aborts.

Now *there's* a question you need to take to the gdb mailing list...
- Dan

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