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Pejman Hashemi Bakhtiar
Pejman Hashemi Bakhtiar

Reputation: 3

Debug Error Occurred in Eclipse

I'm trying to debug an open source package, called libprotoident in Eclipse, Kepler version, within Debian. As it has the Makefile, I choose to make an empty Makefile project, and then add all the sources into the workspace. So after that the source compiled and run successfully as in the command line using the Makefile. As it has 4 apps you can use, I choose to run lpi_protoident package in the run configuration window, as the following image shown.

Run Configuration

So the Program ran successfully. Now I'm trying to debug it but it generates the following error.

Debug Error Occurred

How can I solve this error and debug the Project?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 153

Answers (2)

Shane Alcock
Shane Alcock

Reputation: 51

The file you are trying to debug is most likely a shell script created by automake that acts as a wrapper around the real executable, which has been built in a hidden directory.

Instead of telling Eclipse that tools/protoident/lpi_protoident is your application, try using tools/protoident/.libs/lpi_protoident instead.

Upvotes: 1

Jonah Graham
Jonah Graham

Reputation: 7980

General Answer about the error you are getting

What not in executable format: File format not reconized error means is that lpi_protoident is not an executable on the platform you are working on.

Are you sure that is an executable you can run (E.g. from the command line)?

There is also the small chance that the GDB you are using is somehow incompatible with the executable, but that is less likely.

Building libprotoident from source

(Assuming you are trying to build https://github.com/wanduow/libprotoident)

You are trying to build an automake project. The normal way to do that is by configuring to create Makefile, you shouldn't be making your own makefile. Please refer to the README in the project, but the key parts you need to do are:

Installation

After having installed the required libraries, running the following series of commands should install libprotoident

    ./bootstrap.sh (only if you've cloned the source from GitHub)
    ./configure
    make
    make install

By default, libprotoident installs to /usr/local - this can be changed by appending the --prefix= option to ./configure.

The libprotoident tools are built by default - this can be changed by using the --with-tools=no option with ./configure.

Upvotes: 0

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