I'm trying to use gdb from the command line within MinGW but it keeps crashing. Whenever I type gdb.exe or gdb or even gdb exampleprogram.exe, it crashes and I get a windows popup stating "The application was unable to start correctly (0xC000007b). Click OK to close the application". I don't have the slightest clue how to diagnose this problem. Any help is appreciated.
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Whenever I try to debug TensorFlow's C++ code with Eclipse + GDB, I get GDB crashing, or actually exiting with: error code = -1.
As long as I don't set a breakpoint in TensorFlow's C++ code, the program runs just fine. But when I do, and when the debugger gets to the breakpoint, it crashes after a few seconds with error code -1. There is nothing meaningful in the GDB traces which can explain this behavior.
The GDB version I am using is 7.7.1, running with Eclipse Neon under Ubuntu 14.04.
TensorFlow is compiled in debug mode. I don't think that Eclipse is missing the debug symbols for it, as it is not complaining that those are missing (and also, occasionally, the debugger is able to step through a few steps in the code before it crashes).
An easy way to reproduce is to try and debug the label_image example:
https://www.tensorflow.org/versions/r0.11/tutorials/image_recognition/index.html
Compile it and then create a 'C/C++ Application' debug configuration in Eclipse, directing it to the compiled binary of the label_image app.
I've encountered the same problem with GDB on macOS. But, I finally succeeded to debug tf with lldb. And I also found that using VisualStudio Code + lldb makes it easy for debugging.
Here is my way of debugging. Maybe you can give it a try.
I've selected GDB instead of CDB as the debugger in Qt Creator on Windows:
But when I start debugging a program, it fails with this error:
Unable to create a debugger engine of the type "No engine"
It works if I select CDB from the Combo. Why am I getting this error, and how do I fix it? I assume I do have GDB installed if it's in the combo box, right?
Edit: I see where the problem might lie, but still no idea how do I fix it:
[Open the above image in a new tab to see in full resolution.] It says "Not recognized" for GDB.
Edit 2: I just remembered that I'm using the MSVC compiler, and the Qt libs are compiled for MSVC:
Maybe that's the reason? Although GDB should be able to debug any executable, not just ones generated by gcc, so I'm not sure if it's relevant.
You can't use GDB with MSVC-compiled code. It seems you're mixing the two.
CDB goes with Visual C++. GDB goes with MinGW(-w64).
In a simple Hello World Project in Eclipse CDT (version: Kepler) on Windows 7, I tried to set breakpoints to debug the program.
However, when the program is launched, the debugger stops at the first line of main(), and when the Resume button is pressed, all the breakpoints are skipped and the program terminates with: expect signal SIGINT when the program is resumed.
A strange thing happened too: the same installation on a second computer in which the username does not include spaces works fine.
The console for gdb traces does not report anything strange. The breakpoints are set and the execution does not report other errors (but I don't assure this is the problem).
The same settings are used on MacOS X too, but here it works fine.
Any hints? Thank you.
I'm running Eclipse on win7. I want to make console applications that can run on either windows or linux. I followed the guide here on how to setup the compiler
I'm trying to compile and run a simple hello world program. It compiles fine, but when I try to debug I get the following error:
'launching test' has encountered a problem.
Error in final launch sequence.
Clicking details reveals the following information.
Error in final launch sequence
Failed to execute MI command:
-exec-run
Error message from debugger back end:
Don't know how to run. Try "help target".
Don't know how to run. Try "help target".
My gdb debugger path is C:\codesourcery\bin\arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe
I'm not exactly sure how to proceed.
If you're creating a windows console then I would think you would need gdb found in c:\minGW or wherever you have your Windows 7 gcc toolchain.
To change your debugger on Eclipse Kepler go to:
Run->Debug Configurations. Select Debugger tab and in the "GDB debugger:" field, enter the path of your Windows gdb.exe file (c:\MinGW\bin\gdb.exe if you're using minGW)
I realize this is an old question, but hoping it will help someone. In my case, there was a breakpoint set with only a memory address (no file name associated with it). Not sure how I got into this situation... Once I removed the breakpoint, I was able to launch my program with debugger. Note, I am using Eclipse Luna CDT (SR2)
I recently started learning C++ and I installed Netbeans IDE 6.9.1 and also the Cygwin compiler packages and configured them, and added Cygwin to my environment variable PATH like the instructions told me to.
I wrote a basic "Hello World" program and when I press Ctrl+F5 to "Debug Main Project" it seems to build fine but the black console/command prompt window flashes then disappears.
Then when I go to Run > Run Main Project, it builds and then a command prompt window pops up with the directory to "sh.exe" in its title.
I took a screenshot of the error message:
Does anyone know why this is happening and why I can't get the program to run properly even in debug?
Notice that in the screenshot I switched over to the MinGW tools because I thought maybe Cygwin was the problem, but the same error still occurs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
"No such file or directory" in the error message is the key. When you run the project, it wants to access a file which is not there. Make sure that the paths are set up correctly.