gdb no debug symbols found

RE: gdb no debug symbols found

Jason De Lorme — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 19:12:40 GMT

Thank you, Ole. Adding -g worked. I'm just getting familiar with GCC/GDB so I'll also look into what Prithvi suggests with -ggdb as well, but so far just the -g gives me the symbols and I can setup through again.

RE: gdb no debug symbols found

FormerMember — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:46:04 GMT

I guess -ggdb is a better flag to use in this case. Ole, if this information was available in the nAN29 application note, I would not have had to roam through internet to find the information given by you and my setup time would have been considerably less. Adding it now is better than ever.

RE: gdb no debug symbols found

Ole Morten — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 16:07:31 GMT

If you use my Makefiles, from the nrf51-pure-gcc-setup repository, you must remember to set the CFLAGS to -g in your project Makefile to get gcc to compile in debugging symbols. See for example this Makefile, which currently have only -Os (optimize for size) as a parameter. If you add -g, you should get debuging symbols.

However, the .out file is equivalent with the .elf or .axf file. The exact name is dependent on how the Makefiles are set up.

RE: gdb no debug symbols found

FormerMember — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 15:03:26 GMT

Hi Jason, In my blog here I have described how to set up a makefile environment with GNU-GCC in Ubuntu. The makefile there works with gdb debugging in eclipse. Hope this helps.