You Can Now Debug Programs Using GDB on Redox OS
source link: https://www.redox-os.org/news/public-announcement-gdb/
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Introduction
If you’ve been following my Redox Summer of Code progress , you might have noticed a long break after thelast post. At first, the reason was that I just lost track of time. My previous years of RSoC have followed a similar inconsistent schedule, which I now refer to as an interval of one blog post per “programmer week”, where a “programmer week” is anywhere from 3 days to a month…
Now, the reason for not finishing is that I’m basically done! That’s right, GDB has served us reliably for the past few weeks, where we’ve been able to debug our dynamic linker ( ld.so
) and find problems with shared libraries. We got to the point where the amazing @bjorn3 has managed to run his first rust program compiled on Redox using his rustc cranelift backend !
While obviously we would’ve found the bugs without gdb eventually, I’d love to attribute enough credit to it that it warrants being posted here!
Usage
The easiest way to use gdb on Redox, is to uncomment gdbserver
and gnu-binutils
from your filesystem.toml
, and run gdb-redox <absolute filepath> [args...]
. It will launch our custom gdbserver
and connect to it from gdb over IPC . The “disadvantage” of this is that you’re forced to copy your source code over to Redox if you want pretty symbols and file numbers.
You can also choose to start the standalone gdbserver <absolute filepath> [args...]
, which will open a socket you can connect to from GDB. This allows you to connect from a host Linux system using your favorite tools like normal, by first running (gdb) target remote :64126
to connect to the running server. This approach forces you to forward :64126
over the network, which can be done by starting Redox with the net=redir
flag.
Troubleshooting
If you’re having trouble getting Redox working, join me in our developer chat by sending an email [email protected] and asking for an invite link.
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