[vlc-devel] Re: Compile VLC for debugging

[Herman Schultz]

Hi,

I ' ./configure --enable-debug' and then 'make',
but when I run the final 'vlc', I get  'File format not recognized' error.

$ gdb ./vlc
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This GDB was configured as "i486-linux-gnu"...
"/home/herman/src/vlc-trunk/vlc": not in executable format: File format not
recognized

can you please help how can I run vlc under debugger?

Thank you.



On 5/20/07, Felix Paul Kühne <fkuehne.videolan at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Am 20.05.2007 um 17:24 schrieb Andrew Stone:
> > I'd also like to know.
> >
> > ./configure --enable-debug --disable-optimizations
> >
> > doesn't disable optimizations for some reason.
> That's correct. The debug flag works as expected (it adds debug info,
> etc.), but -optimizations is a bit useless, as VLC's code is always
> being optimised with our current build system without having the
> possibility to change the level by hand. You can only specifically
> disable the usage of AltiVec optimisations (for PowerPC CPUs) and
> additionally, you may optimise for memory usage (--enable-optimize-
> memory).
>
>
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Herman Schultz <herman.schultz at gmail.com>
>
> > Can you please tell me how can i compile VLC for debugging and how
> > can I run VLC to run under a debugger?
>
> We recommend you to use gdb for debugging VLC. Simply running VLC in
> it, is straight forward: "$ gdb ./vlc" (or similar; depending where
> your VLC binary is actually located). Using gdb is a bit more
> complicated, so please have a look at gdb's documentation.
>
> Regards,
> Felix
>
>
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