Eclipse plugin question

Eclipse plugin question

[Gary Thomas]

I have the eclipse plugin working fairly well now - I can build
an application, etc.  I tried manually downloading the code to
my board (I have real hardware, not QEMU) and it runs fine.

Next, I wanted to try running/debugging from eclipse.  I set
up the run configuration and the code was downloaded to the
board.  The last indication said it was starting the debugger.
This window stayed up a long time and then nothing more.

Note: I did figure out that I needed tcf-agent running on my board
(this is not documented).  I also have GDB server on the board.

You can see my setup at http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/eclipse_plugin

Thanks for any ideas/pointers

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Re: Eclipse plugin question

[Lu, Lianhao]

Hi Gary,

Maybe you need to adjust some TCF connection configuration. Here is a simple way to check whether the default TCF connection configuration works for your target:

1. change to Remote System Explorer perspective
2. right click the TCF connection to your target machine, and choose "Properties"->"Connector Services"->"TCF Connection Settings", you might see the following properties, please make sure having them set correctly according to your target machine
- Login.Requied: whether the TCF terminal service requires login? should be "true" for our 0.9 release
- Pwd.Required: whether the login requires password? Adjust to the target system configuration
- Login.Prompt: prompt string for input login name, usually leave as the default
- Password.Prompt: prompt string for input password, usually leave as the dault
- Command.Prompt: the last characters of the terminal shell prompt(i.e. PS1)
3. After setting the above properties, you may try testing the configuration by expanding the TCF connection to your target machine and launching the terminal to your target machine. If everything works fine, a terminal view should be opened and a command prompt would be displayed in that view.

Hope this may help you.

Best Regards,
-Lianhao Lu

Gary Thomas wrote on 2010-11-26:
> I have the eclipse plugin working fairly well now - I can build an application, etc.
> I tried manually downloading the code to my board (I have real
> hardware, not
> QEMU) and it runs fine.
> 
> Next, I wanted to try running/debugging from eclipse.  I set up the
> run configuration and the code was downloaded to the board.  The last
> indication said it was starting the debugger.
> This window stayed up a long time and then nothing more.
> 
> Note: I did figure out that I needed tcf-agent running on my board
> (this is not documented).  I also have GDB server on the board.
> 
> You can see my setup at http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/eclipse_plugin
> 
> Thanks for any ideas/pointers
>

Best Regards,
Lianhao

Re: Eclipse plugin question

[Tian, Kevin]

>From: Lu, Lianhao
>Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 8:54 AM
>
>Hi Gary,
>
>Maybe you need to adjust some TCF connection configuration. Here is a simple way to check
>whether the default TCF connection configuration works for your target:
>
>1. change to Remote System Explorer perspective
>2. right click the TCF connection to your target machine, and choose
>"Properties"->"Connector Services"->"TCF Connection Settings", you might see the
>following properties, please make sure having them set correctly according to your target
>machine
>- Login.Requied: whether the TCF terminal service requires login? should be "true" for our
>0.9 release
>- Pwd.Required: whether the login requires password? Adjust to the target system
>configuration
>- Login.Prompt: prompt string for input login name, usually leave as the default
>- Password.Prompt: prompt string for input password, usually leave as the dault
>- Command.Prompt: the last characters of the terminal shell prompt(i.e. PS1)
>3. After setting the above properties, you may try testing the configuration by expanding
>the TCF connection to your target machine and launching the terminal to your target
>machine. If everything works fine, a terminal view should be opened and a command
>prompt would be displayed in that view.
>
>Hope this may help you.
>
>Best Regards,
>-Lianhao Lu

Do we document those info somewhere? If not, and if Gary verifies above working, we
need to document then. :-)

Thanks
Kevin

>
>Gary Thomas wrote on 2010-11-26:
>> I have the eclipse plugin working fairly well now - I can build an application, etc.
>> I tried manually downloading the code to my board (I have real
>> hardware, not
>> QEMU) and it runs fine.
>>
>> Next, I wanted to try running/debugging from eclipse.  I set up the
>> run configuration and the code was downloaded to the board.  The last
>> indication said it was starting the debugger.
>> This window stayed up a long time and then nothing more.
>>
>> Note: I did figure out that I needed tcf-agent running on my board
>> (this is not documented).  I also have GDB server on the board.
>>
>> You can see my setup at http://www.mlbassoc.com/poky/eclipse_plugin
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas/pointers
>>
>
>Best Regards,
>Lianhao
>
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