From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3A0C23CA.13ADFE8A@mvista.com> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 08:35:22 -0800 From: Cal Erickson Reply-To: cal_erickson@mvista.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: john zhan CC: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: GDB for host development platform References: <006001bf448c$4aee3aa0$57c809c0@fel> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: John, Why not take a look at the Cross Development Kit from MontaVista Software? If you go to their web site you can download it for free. It comes with GDB and GDB server which uses the ethernet to debug. Cal Erickson john zhan wrote: > I have now successfully build GDB-4.18 for linux/ppc. > Both target and host are powerpc-linux. > When I was trying to run a executable in my target > hardware(8xx) with gdb(target for exec), > e.g. hello, > GDB said > " > Starting program: ./hello > Don't know how to run. Try "help target". > " > Questions: > 1. what's going on it? > 2. Does(Did) anyone do the same thing? > 3.The cross-debugger + target gdb server with a serial connection > is the unique choices? > 4. I wonder which is the best way to debug a linux/ppc application > on the embedded platform. > 5. What do you think a full host development environment > (including native comilper,debugger etc) in the embedded > system. > > thank for any response. > > regards. > john zhan. > -- =========================================================================== Cal Erickson MontaVista Software Inc. Customer Support Engineer 490 Potrero Avenue Phone (408) 328-0304 Sunnyvale CA 94085 Fax (408) 328-9204 e-mail cal_erickson@mvista.com Pager 877-566-2012 support 1-800-759-8888 pin 202-7489 web http://www.mvista.com support e-mail: support@mvista.com eCode: http://cal@work.com.ecode.com =========================================================================== ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/