BeagleBone Black Remote Debug

Remote debugging BeagleBone Black applications from Eclipse.

Before start this be sure that you have enabled remote access to BBB board from Eclipse.

See the How To Configure Eclipse For BBB board for details.

Install the GDB Server at the BBB board.

Type the following commands in the BBB terminal

debian@beaglebone:~$ sudo apt-get update
debian@beaglebone:~$ sudo apt-get install gdbserver

Install the GDB Multiarch at the Debian PC .

From the PC Debian

andrzej@debian11:~$ sudo apt-get install gdb-multiarch

In the Eclipse project directory create file .gdbinit which should has line set architecture arm

andrzej@debian11:~/eclipse-workspace/Test_BBB$ cat .gdbinit
set architecture arm

From Eclipse menu select Run->Debug Configurations

Right click at the C/C++ Remote Application and select New Configuration

In the Main section create New Connection, select SSH type.

Specify properties of a new connection and press Finish.

Click Browse button for Remote C/C++ Application File and select remote file for debugging.

In the Debugger section change the DGB debugger to /usr/bin/gdb-multiarch, and GDB command file to location of .gdbinit file created in previous step.

Press Debug button. The remote debugging session should start.