Native Development

[canurabus]

Hiya,

I'm trying to debug an application and I want to use GDB remotely [ie no IDE, just through command line]. I'm developing on Linux with Qt/QML for the Playbook. There's some documentation [1], and an older forum thread [2], but these are kind of over my head. Given a bar file "abc.bar", could anyone provide step by step instructions as to how I can debug it remotely as it executes on the device?

http://developer.blackberry.com/native/documentation/bb10/com.qnx.doc.neutrino.prog/topic/using_gdb_...

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Native-Development/Launching-debugger-without-IDE/m-p/1789555...

Regards,

Preet

[teh_programerer · Accepted solution]

I have the following in a Makefile:

[Assuming you haven't deployed your program]

$ blackberry-debugtokenrequest -storepass <Keystore Password> -devicepin <PIN><YourApplication>_tok.bar

$ blackberry-deploy -package <YourApplication>.bar -installDebugToken <YourApplication>_tok.bar <Device IP Address> -password <Device Password>

$ blackberry-deploy -debugNative -launchApp -device <Device IP Address> -password <Device Password> <YourApplication>.bar | grep result:: | sed 's/result:://' > pid

[Connecting to the device and running GDB]

$ blackberry-connect <Device IP Address> -password <Device Password> -sshPublicKey ~/.rim/bbt_id_rsa.pub > /dev/null &

$ echo target qnx <Device IP Address>:8000 > gdbrun

$ echo sym <Executable Path> >> gdbrun

$ printf "attach " >> gdbrun

$ cat pid >> gdbrun

$ ntoarm-gdb -command=gdbrun

I only have a PlayBook, so if you also plan on using this for BB10 later I'm not sure if it will work.  The whole project is hosted at: https://hg.interactivelaboratories.com/playbook_template

[canurabus]

This is exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

[teh_programerer]

Sorry about bumping this thread, I couldn't edit my post.

Here's the new URL where the project is hosted:

https://github.com/El-Rico/PlayBook_Template