Cross-compiling Qt Embedded 5.5 – unable to cross debug in QtCreator

[pVit]

Hello,

I already wrote to sysprogs support but they answered me:

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Hi,

Unfortunately due to limited resources we cannot provide support for non-Sysprogs products.
Please consider asking at the forums and mailing lists to get advice from the community.

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… so I am here.

This is my issue:

 

I have already crosscompiled Qt Embedded 5.5 for Raspberry Pi 2 (RPi3) by your tutorial (http://visualgdb.com/tools/QtCrossTool/).

The crosscompile works well but I have problem with debugging. I don’t know what file Qt needs to set up. I tested it on Raspbian and Ubuntu MATE but both have the same problem.

I need it in Qt Creator, not Visual Studio like in tutorial.

I tried:

GDB’s in crosscompile directory:

SysGCC\Raspberry\bin\arm-linux-gnueabihf-gdb.exe - Gives mi error - "The selected build of GDB doesn not support Python scripting. It cannot be used in Qt Creator".

SysGCC\MinGW32\bin\gdb.exe - Gives mi error - "The selected build of GDB doesn not support Python scripting. It cannot be used in Qt Creator".

Qt GDB C:\Qt\Tools\mingw491_32\bin\gdb.exe

Listening on port 10010

A handler for the OS ABI “GNU/Linux” is not built into this configuration

of GDB. Attempting to continue with the default i386 settings.

Remote debugging from host 10.21.1.241

Process /home/enwox/Desktop/AttendanceTerminal/AttendanceTerminal created; pid = 3944

A handler for the OS ABI “GNU/Linux” is not built into this configuration

of GDB. Attempting to continue with the default i386 settings.

Architecture rejected target-supplied description

 

… And timeout shows up after some time. Could you help me somehow? I was finding an answer for a long long time and I still don’t get it. I’m sure You know how important debugging is 🙂 .

 

Thanks

 

• This topic was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by pVit.

[pVit]

Nobody with this issue?

[My]

Had the same problem some time ago. You have to compile GDB yourself. Thats how I did it:

Install MinGW the normal distro you can’t use the one you used to compile qt, I don’t know why. They don’t work together so uninstall the other one before. Link: http://www.mingw.org/

Download qt-creator source. Link: https://github.com/qtproject/qt-creator

Modify \dist\gdb\Makefile.mingw add a new target: targets=arm-none-eabi,arm-none-linux-gnueabi,i686-pc-mingw32,arm-linux-gnueabihf

In \dist\gdb\ run make -f Makefile.mingw

Now you have your gdb for windows.

Hope I could help you.

 

[pVit]

Thank You for your reply,
I have installed MinGW distro from your web, it’s g++ version 6.1.0 now.
I downloaded qt-creator source, changed makefile.mingw file and tried to run make -f, but MinGW type:

C:\Users\Tom\Desktop\crossdebug_mingw\qt-creator-master\qt-creator-master\dist\gdb>make -f Makefile.mingw
The syntax of the command is incorrect.
make: *** [Makefile.mingw:24: makesourcedir] Error 1

C:\Users\Tom\Desktop\crossdebug_mingw\qt-creator-master\qt-creator-master\dist\gdb>

Do you know what to do with this?

[pVit]

I downloaded another version of MinGW and I have this issue now:

Tom@Tomáš /c/Users/Tom/Desktop/qt-creator-master_test/dist/gdb
$ make -f Makefile.mingw
wget -V &> /dev/null || mingw-get install msys-wget-bin
cd /c/Users/Tom/Desktop/qt-creator-master_test/dist/gdb/staging && \
echo “Extracting expat…” && \
tar xf /c/Users/Tom/Desktop/qt-creator-master_test/dist/gdb/source/expat
-2.1.1.tar.bz2 && \
cd expat-2.1.1 && \
./configure -prefix=/c/Users/Tom/Desktop/qt-creator-master_test/dist/gdb
/staging –enable-static –build=i686-pc-mingw32 && \
make && make install
Extracting expat…
checking build system type… i686-pc-mingw32
checking host system type… i686-pc-mingw32
checking for as… as
checking for dlltool… dlltool
checking for objdump… objdump
checking how to print strings… printf
checking for gcc… gcc
checking whether the C compiler works… yes
checking for C compiler default output file name… a.exe
checking for suffix of executables… .exe
checking whether we are cross compiling… no
checking for suffix of object files… o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g… yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89… none needed
checking for a sed that does not truncate output… /bin/sed
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e… /bin/grep
checking for egrep… /bin/grep -E
checking for fgrep… /bin/grep -F
checking for ld used by gcc… c:/mingw/mingw_last/mingw32/bin/ld.exe
checking if the linker (c:/mingw/mingw_last/mingw32/bin/ld.exe) is GNU ld… yes

checking for BSD- or MS-compatible name lister (nm)… /mingw/bin/nm
checking the name lister (/mingw/bin/nm) interface… BSD nm
checking whether ln -s works… no, using cp -pR
checking the maximum length of command line arguments… 8192
checking whether the shell understands some XSI constructs… yes
checking whether the shell understands “+=”… yes
checking how to convert i686-pc-mingw32 file names to i686-pc-mingw32 format…
func_convert_file_msys_to_w32
checking how to convert i686-pc-mingw32 file names to toolchain format… func_c
onvert_file_msys_to_w32
checking for c:/mingw/mingw_last/mingw32/bin/ld.exe option to reload object file
s… -r
checking for objdump… (cached) objdump
checking how to recognize dependent libraries… file_magic ^x86 archive import|
^x86 DLL
checking for dlltool… (cached) dlltool
checking how to associate runtime and link libraries… func_cygming_dll_for_imp
lib
checking for ar… ar
checking for archiver @FILE support… @
checking for strip… strip
checking for ranlib… ranlib
checking for gawk… gawk
checking command to parse /mingw/bin/nm output from gcc object… ok
checking for sysroot… no
checking for mt… no
checking if : is a manifest tool… no
checking how to run the C preprocessor… gcc -E
checking for ANSI C header files… yes
checking for sys/types.h… yes
checking for sys/stat.h… yes
checking for stdlib.h… yes
checking for string.h… yes
checking for memory.h… yes
checking for strings.h… yes
checking for inttypes.h… yes
checking for stdint.h… yes
checking for unistd.h… yes
checking for dlfcn.h… yes
checking for objdir… .libs
checking if gcc supports -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions… no
checking for gcc option to produce PIC… -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC
checking if gcc PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC works… yes
checking if gcc static flag -static works… yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o… yes
checking if gcc supports -c -o file.o… (cached) yes
checking whether the gcc linker (c:/mingw/mingw_last/mingw32/bin/ld.exe) support
s shared libraries… yes
checking whether -lc should be explicitly linked in… yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics… Win32 ld.exe
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs… immediate
checking whether stripping libraries is possible… yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries… yes
checking whether to build shared libraries… yes
checking whether to build static libraries… yes
checking for gcc… (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler… (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g… (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89… (cached) none needed
checking for g++… g++
checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler… yes
checking whether g++ accepts -g… yes
checking how to run the C++ preprocessor… g++ -E
checking for ld used by g++… c:/mingw/mingw_last/mingw32/bin/ld.exe
checking if the linker (c:/mingw/mingw_last/mingw32/bin/ld.exe) is GNU ld… yes

checking whether the g++ linker (c:/mingw/mingw_last/mingw32/bin/ld.exe) support
s shared libraries… yes
checking for g++ option to produce PIC… -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC
checking if g++ PIC flag -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC works… yes
checking if g++ static flag -static works… yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o… yes
checking if g++ supports -c -o file.o… (cached) yes
checking whether the g++ linker (c:/mingw/mingw_last/mingw32/bin/ld.exe) support
s shared libraries… yes
checking dynamic linker characteristics… Win32 ld.exe
checking how to hardcode library paths into programs… immediate
checking for a BSD-compatible install… /bin/install -c
checking whether gcc accepts -fexceptions… yes
checking for ANSI C header files… (cached) yes
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian… no
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const… yes
checking for size_t… yes
checking for memmove… yes
checking for bcopy… no
checking fcntl.h usability… yes
checking fcntl.h presence… yes
checking for fcntl.h… yes
checking for unistd.h… (cached) yes
checking for off_t… yes
checking for stdlib.h… (cached) yes
checking for unistd.h… (cached) yes
checking for sys/param.h… yes
checking for getpagesize… yes
checking for working mmap… no
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C99… none needed
checking for gcc option to accept ISO Standard C… (cached) none needed
checking for an ANSI C99-conforming __func__… yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: WARNING: ‘Makefile.in’ seems to ignore the –datarootdir setting

config.status: creating expat.pc
config.status: creating expat_config.h
config.status: executing libtool commands
make[1]: Entering directory
/c/Users/Tom/Desktop/qt-creator-master_test/dist/gd
b/staging/expat-2.1.1′
/bin/sh ./libtool –verbose –mode=compile gcc -I./lib -I. -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissin
g-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -o lib/xmlp
arse.lo -c lib/xmlparse.c
libtool: compile: gcc -I./lib -I. -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-pr
ototypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -c lib/xmlparse.c -DDLL_EXPORT -DPI
C -o lib/.libs/xmlparse.o
libtool: compile: gcc -I./lib -I. -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-pr
ototypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -c lib/xmlparse.c -o lib/xmlparse.o
>/dev/null 2>&1
/bin/sh ./libtool –verbose –mode=compile gcc -I./lib -I. -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissin
g-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -o lib/xmlt
ok.lo -c lib/xmltok.c
libtool: compile: gcc -I./lib -I. -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-pr
ototypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -c lib/xmltok.c -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC
-o lib/.libs/xmltok.o
libtool: compile: gcc -I./lib -I. -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-pr
ototypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -c lib/xmltok.c -o lib/xmltok.o >/de
v/null 2>&1
/bin/sh ./libtool –verbose –mode=compile gcc -I./lib -I. -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissin
g-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -o lib/xmlr
ole.lo -c lib/xmlrole.c
libtool: compile: gcc -I./lib -I. -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-pr
ototypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -c lib/xmlrole.c -DDLL_EXPORT -DPIC
-o lib/.libs/xmlrole.o
libtool: compile: gcc -I./lib -I. -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-pr
ototypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -c lib/xmlrole.c -o lib/xmlrole.o >/
dev/null 2>&1
/bin/sh ./libtool –verbose –mode=link gcc -I./lib -I. -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-p
rototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -no-undefined
-version-info 7:0:6 -rpath /c/Users/Tom/Desktop/qt-creator-master_test/dist/gdb/
staging/lib -o libexpat.la lib/xmlparse.lo lib/xmltok.lo lib/xmlrole.lo
libtool: link: rm -fr .libs/libexpat.a .libs/libexpat.dll.a .libs/libexpat.la .
libs/libexpat.lai
libtool: link: gcc -shared lib/.libs/xmlparse.o lib/.libs/xmltok.o lib/.libs/xm
lrole.o -O2 -o .libs/libexpat-1.dll -Wl,–enable-auto-image-base -Xlinker –
-out-implib -Xlinker .libs/libexpat.dll.a
libtool: link: ar cru .libs/libexpat.a lib/xmlparse.o lib/xmltok.o lib/xmlrole.
o
libtool: link: ranlib .libs/libexpat.a
libtool: link: creating libexpat.la
libtool: link: ( cd “.libs” && rm -f “libexpat.la” && cp -pR “../libexpat.la” “l
ibexpat.la” )
/bin/sh ./libtool –verbose –mode=link gcc -I./lib -I. -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-p
rototypes -Wstrict-prototypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -o xmlwf/xmlw
f.exe xmlwf/xmlwf.o xmlwf/xmlfile.o xmlwf/codepage.o xmlwf/readfilemap.o libexpa
t.la
libtool: link: gcc -I./lib -I. -g -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-protot
ypes -fexceptions -DHAVE_EXPAT_CONFIG_H -o xmlwf/.libs/xmlwf.exe xmlwf/xmlwf.o x
mlwf/xmlfile.o xmlwf/codepage.o xmlwf/readfilemap.o ./.libs/libexpat.dll.a -L/c
/Users/Tom/Desktop/qt-creator-master_test/dist/gdb/staging/lib
c:/mingw/mingw_last/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/5.3.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
xmlwf/xmlwf.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
c:/mingw/mingw_last/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/5.3.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
xmlwf/xmlwf.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
c:/mingw/mingw_last/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/5.3.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
xmlwf/xmlwf.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
c:/mingw/mingw_last/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/5.3.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
xmlwf/xmlwf.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
c:/mingw/mingw_last/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/5.3.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
xmlwf/xmlwf.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
c:/mingw/mingw_last/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/5.3.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
xmlwf/xmlwf.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
c:/mingw/mingw_last/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/5.3.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
xmlwf/xmlwf.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
c:/mingw/mingw_last/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/5.3.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
xmlwf/xmlwf.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
c:/mingw/mingw_last/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/5.3.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
xmlwf/xmlwf.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
c:/mingw/mingw_last/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/5.3.0/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
xmlwf/xmlwf.o: Relocations in generic ELF (EM: 40)
xmlwf/xmlwf.o: error adding symbols: File in wrong format
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [xmlwf/xmlwf.exe] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory /c/Users/Tom/Desktop/qt-creator-master_test/dist/gdb
/staging/expat-2.1.1′
make: *** [/c/Users/Tom/Desktop/qt-creator-master_test/dist/gdb/staging/lib/libe
xpat.a] Error 2

Tom@Tomáš /c/Users/Tom/Desktop/qt-creator-master_test/dist/gdb

• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by pVit.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by pVit.

[My]

Did you have admin rights?

[pVit]

< /d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1/gdb/gnulib/import/wctype.in.h; \
} > wctype.h-t && \
mv wctype.h-t wctype.h
make all-recursive
make[8]: Entering directory `/d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1-bu
ild/gdb/build-gnulib/import’
make[9]: Entering directory `/d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1-bu
ild/gdb/build-gnulib/import’
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1/gdb/g
nulib/import -I.. -g -O2 -D__USE_MINGW_ACCESS -MT dirname-lgpl.o -MD -MP -MF
.deps/dirname-lgpl.Tpo -c -o dirname-lgpl.o /d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/stagi
ng/gdb-7.11.1/gdb/gnulib/import/dirname-lgpl.c
In file included from d:/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1/gdb/gnuli
b/import/dirname-lgpl.c:23:0:
./wchar.h:514:1: error: unknown type name ‘mbstate_t’
_GL_FUNCDECL_RPL (mbsinit, int, (const mbstate_t *ps));
^
./wchar.h:539:1: error: unknown type name ‘mbstate_t’
_GL_FUNCDECL_RPL (mbrtowc, size_t,
^
./wchar.h:593:1: error: unknown type name ‘mbstate_t’
_GL_FUNCDECL_RPL (mbsrtowcs, size_t,
^
make[9]: *** [dirname-lgpl.o] Error 1
make[9]: Leaving directory `/d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1-build/gdb/build-gnulib/import’
make[8]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[8]: Leaving directory `/d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1-build/gdb/build-gnulib/import’
make[7]: *** [all] Error 2
make[7]: Leaving directory `/d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1-build/gdb/build-gnulib/import’
make[6]: *** [subdir_do] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory `/d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1-build/gdb/build-gnulib’
make[5]: *** [all] Error 2
make[5]: Leaving directory `/d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1-build/gdb/build-gnulib’
make[4]: *** [subdir_do] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1-build/gdb’
make[3]: *** [all-lib] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1-build/gdb’
make[2]: *** [all-gdb] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1-build’
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/staging/gdb-7.11.1-build’
make: *** [/d/qt-creator-master/dist/gdb/qtcreator-gdb-7.11.1/gdb.exe] Error 2

• This reply was modified 7 years, 5 months ago by pVit.

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