Small suggestion. I’ve changed by mistake filename of my executable and did not change project settings. Stupid – I know 🙂 But I noticed, that VisualGDB showed only general error.

Log had more explanations.

(gdb begin)
VisualGDB is licensed to Krzysztof Bzowski
gdb –interpreter mi –args “/home/kbzowski/simptis/build/simptis.Debug”
=thread-group-added,id=”i1″
-list-features
~”GNU gdb (GDB) 7.8.2\n”
~”Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n”
~”License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html&gt;\nThis is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.\nThere is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type \”show copying\”\nand \”show warranty\” for details.\n”

~”This GDB was configured as \”x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu\”.\nType \”show configuration\” for configuration details.”

~”\nFor bug reporting instructions, please see:\n”
~”<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/&gt;.\n”
~”Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:\n<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/&gt;.\n”

~”For help, type \”help\”.\n”
~”Type \”apropos word\” to search for commands related to \”word\”…\n”
&”/home/kbzowski/simptis/build/simptis.Debug: No such file or directory.\n”
^done,features=[“frozen-varobjs”,”pending-breakpoints”,”thread-info”,”data-read-memory-bytes”,”breakpoint-notifications”,”ada-task-info”,”language-option”,”info-gdb-mi-command”,”undefined-command-error-code”,”exec-run-start-option”,”python”]
-gdb-set stop-on-solib-events 1
^done
-gdb-set disassembly-flavor intel
^done
-gdb-set print demangle off
^done
-gdb-version
~”GNU gdb (GDB) 7.8.2\n”
~”Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.\n”
~”License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html&gt;\nThis is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.\nThere is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.  Type \”show copying\”\nand \”show warranty\” for details.\n”

~”This GDB was configured as \”x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu\”.\nType \”show configuration\” for configuration details.”

~”\nFor bug reporting instructions, please see:\n”
~”<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/&gt;.\n”
~”Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at:\n<http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/&gt;.\n”

~”For help, type \”help\”.\n”
~”Type \”apropos word\” to search for commands related to \”word\”.\n”
^done
-break-insert -f main
&”No symbol table is loaded.  Use the \”file\” command.\n”
^done,bkpt={number=”1″,type=”breakpoint”,disp=”keep”,enabled=”y”,addr=”<PENDING>”,pending=”main”,times=”0″,original-location=”main”}
Warning: could not set a breakpoint on main. ‘Step into new instance’ will not work.
-break-delete 1
^done
-inferior-tty-set /dev/pts/2
^done
info target
&”info target\n”
^done
-exec-run
^error,msg=”No executable file specified.\nUse the \”file\” or \”exec-file\” command.”

Maybe VisualGDB can handle such situations. Because the problem is obvious 🙂