[Lazarus] Can Lazarus IDE debugger attach to already running process?

[Michael Schnell]

On 09/19/2013 09:35 AM, Martin wrote:
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> Does gdb suppor asyncronous mode for this target?
I don't know.
We tried to attach to gdbserver via TCP/IP.
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> e.g can you
>
>  gdb -i mi
>
> -exec-continue &

I did not do this myself, but a pal of mine from the German Lazarus 
forum did these tests. So I can't comment.

In fact I preferred to try to make working to have Lazarus remotely 
attach to a "full" gdb on the target via SSH. (When I last looked at it 
there ware some disabled lines of code for this in the Lazarus sources.

>
> and while running
> interrupt
> ?

AFAIK, gdbserver does not support interrupting a running program. That 
is one of the causes why I prefer the SSH way of remote debugging. The 
other is that for all targets you can easily get a native gdb out of the 
box, while it might be rather tedious to install all the tools to create 
the appropriate gdbserver on the target and the cross-gdb executable on 
the PC you need to attach to it.

>
> You can always send me a log file.
Thanks a lot. I'll try to re-open the dialog with my pal from the German 
forum...
>
>
> Also check, please: on my tests, to run gdb asyncrounus in a 
> gdbserver, the -exec-run (or r) command was NOT used (would not work) 
> but -exec-continue was used.
>
> Is that the case for your target too?

The target (both for me and my pal) is a gui-less NAT by QNAP.

I was able to (on a Linux PC) build a native fpc compiler for that 
target and use it there to compile a (in fact productive) program I 
before developed and tested on a Linux PC.

My pal was able to create a cross-fpc for that target and he said same 
was able to compile a testing program that ion fact did run on the target.

-Michael