Apportable gdb

Apportable gdb is a fork of the Android NDK gdb. It also includes patches from the Fennec Android fork of gdb

The primary differentiator of the Apportable gdb fork is the addition of Objective C debugging support.

Building Production Version of gdb

• git clone git@github.com:apportable/gdb.git
• mkdir gdb_build
• cd gdb_build
• CFLAGS="-g -O2 -Wno-unused-value -Wno-unused-function" ~/gdb/configure --target=arm-elf-linux --enable-targets=all --with-python=yes
• make
• ls -l gdb/gdb

Building Debug Version of gdb

• git clone git@github.com:apportable/gdb.git (if not already done)
• mkdir gdb_debug
• cd gdb_debug
• CFLAGS="-g -Wno-unused-value -Wno-unused-function" ~/gdb/configure --target=arm-elf-linux --enable-targets=all --with-python=yes
• make
• ls -l gdb/gdb

Debugging gdb

• Rebuild/debug your program ...
• In another shell ps -ef | grep gdb
• gdb attach {pid of built gdb}
• set any breakpoints in gdb source
• continue