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Thu, 07 April 2011 16:39

Eclipse User

I'm evaluating the possibility of replacing Visual Studio with Eclipse and part of the evaluation is debugging. I just installed Eclipse for C/C++ Developers (Helios) and Wascana MingW. I created the Eclipse "Hello World" project and set a breakpoint at the output statement. The project built and ran error-free, but when I selected "Debug", I got an error the the effect that "gdb --version" returned an error. I cannot find any option to tell Eclipse where to find GDB. I'm running Win7-64, with 64-bit Java. Where do I go from here? ("Back to Visual Studio" is NOT a preferred answer. Smile

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[Updated on: Thu, 07 April 2011 16:42] by Moderator

Re: Can't launch gdb [message #664227 is a reply to message #664213]

Thu, 07 April 2011 18:33

Eclipse User

Go to Run->Debug Configurations...
This will show you the different debug launches that exist and give you the ability to create new ones. Choose the one for the project your trying to debug and go to the Debugger tab. You can specify the location of GDB in there.

The best way though would be to add the location of GDB to your PATH variable.

Marc

Re: Can't launch gdb [message #664249 is a reply to message #664227]

Thu, 07 April 2011 23:12

Eclipse User

Thanks. I was lulled into a false sense of security by the Msys "which" command, which found the debugger. But your suggestion made me remember that Msys has path components that are not in Windows itself. Your suggestion fixed things nicely.

Re: Can't launch gdb [message #1750894 is a reply to message #664213]

Sat, 31 December 2016 06:56

Eclipse User

HI,
while im trying to debugging my project , i bump into the same problem , as described up , i tried to follow after your instructions ,but unfortunately
without success,
do you have an another idea thet might help also?

thanks alot.

Re: Can't launch gdb [message #1751142 is a reply to message #1750894]

Wed, 04 January 2017 17:06

Eclipse User

HI chen tal,

Please start a new thread and describe the problem you have, specifically what error you get.

Jonah

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