[vlc-devel] Re: Compile VLC for debugging

[Andrew Stone]

Herman,

Can you run vlc with ./vlc without the debugger?

If you can do that you can run vlc and then attach to it with the debugger later.

Do a 'ps a' and get the PID of the vlc process.

Then type gdb vlc PID

where PID is the numeric process ID

Good luck :)

-Andrew


----- Original Message ----
From: Herman Schultz <herman.schultz at gmail.com>
To: vlc-devel at videolan.org
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:28:20 AM
Subject: [vlc-devel] Re: Compile VLC for debugging



On 5/23/07, Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis at simphalempin.com> wrote:

On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:11:14 -0500, "Herman Schultz"
<herman.schultz at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I ' ./configure --enable-debug' and then 'make',

> but when I run the final 'vlc', I get  'File format not recognized'
error.
>
> $ gdb ./vlc
> GNU gdb 6.6-debian
> Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you

> are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for

> details.
> 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?


The solution to this problem has already been posted in this exact same
thread. Could you please try self help, and limit questions for difficult
issues?

Thanks. I did try what a poster suggested, but it just does not work for me:

"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."

Thank you.





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