Error while launching commad: gdb --version

[jsil]

Hi.

I'm using EDK tool in a Windows XP environment and an AVNET LXT150T Spartan-6 kit. I compiled a very basic LED set code like this:

int main()

{

      XGpio led; // LED declaration

      XGpio_Initialize(&led, XPAR_LEDS_DEVICE_ID);

      XGpio_SetDataDirection(&led,0,0);

   while(1)

   {

         XGpio_DiscreteWrite(&led,0,0x55);

   }

   return 0;

}

Compilation and FPGA programming was ok but when I tried to debug I got the error message: "Error while launching commad: gdb --version"

Does anyone have a hint?

Thanks so much

Joao

[siktap · Accepted solution]

The Local C/C++ Application is a standard button in the Eclipse toolchain, which will call the machines local gdb which can be set up under Project -> Debug configurations. This would be for third party devices/debugging.

This would explain why the gdb version is being found as incorrect.

Launching on Hardware is a Xilinx Specific debug, which will use the powerpc-eabi-gdb or the mb-gdb. This option will call the correct debug with the correct options on the correct Xilinx hardware.

Regards

Sikta

[jsil]

Thanks so much for the explanation. Yet could you, please, be some more specific? I'm using MicroBlase in EDK tool. What should I set in order to use mb-gdb as recommended by you?

Thanks and best regards

João

[htsvn]

Hi,

Do you want to debug via GDB or can you use SDK to do this?

What do you see when you type the command mb-gdb -v in the command prompt?

--Hem

[siktap]

Can you try running it on Hardware as an option and see if the issue persists?

Regards

Sikta

[gilgoldman]

If this error is cause by using the standard eclipse debugger, how can we fix it?
If we want to debug a local C++ application on our laptop, not on a target hardware, this is the only debugger that's available out of the box, no?