[Brian Beuken]

I made some progress which may help others.

I decided to update my Raspberry pi toolchain (do this without a project loaded) and clean my PC side directories, then allow the suggested directories on sync sysroot to download to my PC

at the end of the sync, I was informed some functions were not compatible with windows and was offered a fix, which I accepted.
But sadly on 1st attempt to build, with short file names it still was unable to locate GLESv2 EGL and bcm_host, it just ffailed to find the ..\opt\vc\lib dir.

I removed the short names and provided full directory names in the additional linker options and that passed the tool change test, but an attempt to compile for deploy, only provides a large list of DSO missing errors mostly coming from bcm_host.so but I was able to locate and add so it now looks like this

D:\SYSProgs\arm-linux-gnueabihf\sysroot\opt\vc\lib\libGLESv2.so D:\SYSProgs\arm-linux-gnueabihf\sysroot\opt\vc\lib\libbcm_host.so D:\SYSProgs\arm-linux-gnueabihf\sysroot\opt\vc\lib\libEGL.so D:\SYSProgs\arm-linux-gnueabihf\sysroot\opt\vc\lib\libvchiq_arm.so d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/opt/vc/lib/libvcos.so

 

I then realised that perhaps linking the static.a files was a mistake  and switched to .so file

Finally, this worked, my project now does indeed compile and deploy, and run.

It turns out with all .so files I didn’t need to add the 2 apparently missing DSO’s D:\SYSProgs\arm-linux-gnueabihf\sysroot\opt\vc\lib\libvchiq_arm.so d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/opt/vc/lib/libvcos.so

it does deploy and run now, though I have not worked out how to send my projects assets to the target? There seems to be no auto synchronization process for that as exists on the build on target options?

 

 

 

 

 

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Brian Beuken.
• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Brian Beuken.

[Brian Beuken]

hard coding the directories and removing the short names does allow it to compile, but the linker then reports a issue  related to an unresolved reference to

vchiq_release_message in bcm_host

 

Im going to attempt a complete upload of the Pi’s directories to see if that resolves this but it is confusing, that I cannot simply use synchronise sysroot, and have it look at the library directories and produce the correct settings?

 

edit, a full sync of the entrie dir structure, short lib names still not found

adding full path names, allows compile but link throws up countless undefined references

So still unablet to successfully link or deploy to target.

 

 

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Brian Beuken.

[Brian Beuken]

It provides a very long list of directories it attempt so find the missing files in .a and .so formats, and then reports a fail

 

attempt to open failed
attempt to open /opt/vc/lib/libGLESv2.so failed
attempt to open /opt/vc/lib\libGLESv2.a failed
attempt to open /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2.so failed
attempt to open /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf\libGLESv2.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/libGLESv2.so failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9\libGLESv2.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2.so failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf\libGLESv2.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/libGLESv2.so failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc\libGLESv2.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib/libGLESv2.so failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib\libGLESv2.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2.so failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf\libGLESv2.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib/libGLESv2.so failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib\libGLESv2.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libGLESv2.so failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf\libGLESv2.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib/libGLESv2.so failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib\libGLESv2.a failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/q/gnu/linux/raspberry-jessie/out/arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib/libGLESv2.so failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/q/gnu/linux/raspberry-jessie/out/arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib\libGLESv2.a failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/local/lib/libGLESv2.so failed
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attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib/libGLESv2.so failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib\libGLESv2.a failed
attempt to open /opt/vc/lib/libEGL.so failed
attempt to open /opt/vc/lib\libEGL.a failed
attempt to open /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libEGL.so failed
attempt to open /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf\libEGL.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/libEGL.so failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9\libEGL.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libEGL.so failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf\libEGL.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/libEGL.so failed
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attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib\libEGL.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libEGL.so failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf\libEGL.a failed
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attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib\libEGL.a failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/q/gnu/linux/raspberry-jessie/out/arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib/libEGL.so failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/q/gnu/linux/raspberry-jessie/out/arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib\libEGL.a failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/local/lib/libEGL.so failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/local/lib\libEGL.a failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib/libEGL.so failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib\libEGL.a failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib/libEGL.so failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib\libEGL.a failed
attempt to open /opt/vc/lib/libbcm_host.so failed
attempt to open /opt/vc/lib\libbcm_host.a failed
attempt to open /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libbcm_host.so failed
attempt to open /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf\libbcm_host.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/libbcm_host.so failed
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attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libbcm_host.so failed
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attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib/libbcm_host.so failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib\libbcm_host.a failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/q/gnu/linux/raspberry-jessie/out/arm-linux-gnueabihf/lib/libbcm_host.so failed
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attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/local/lib\libbcm_host.a failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib/libbcm_host.so failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib\libbcm_host.a failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib/libbcm_host.so failed
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib\libbcm_host.a failed
attempt to open /opt/vc/lib/libpthread.so failed
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attempt to open /usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpthread.so failed
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attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/libpthread.so failed
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attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib\libpthread.a failed
attempt to open d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpthread.so succeeded
opened script file d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpthread.so
opened script file d:/sysprogs/bin/../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpthread.so
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpthread.so.0 succeeded
/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpthread.so.0 (d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpthread.so.0)
attempt to open d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libpthread_nonshared.a succeeded
d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find : Invalid argument
d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lGLESv2
d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lEGL
d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lbcm_host
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

 

But, the files are indeed in place on my laptop in D:\SYSProgs\arm-linux-gnueabihf\sysroot\opt\vc\lib

which is where the synchronisze sysroot put the directories, the list of failed directies does not include

d:\sysprogs\bin\../arm-linux-gnueabihf/sysroot/opt/vc/lib  int its searches. Am I missing something obvious here?

 

 

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Brian Beuken.

[Brian Beuken]

Im having a few problems I wonder if you can advise

I sent up a cross compiling configuration and Synced sysroot to include all my relevent directories

The compiler builds ok but the linker fails as its unable to find the 1st 3 of these libs GLESv2 EGL bcm_host pthread openal alut

The directory (/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf) containing libGLESv2_static.a  and .so have been copied to my dev PC ok

but the toolchain test fails with

Tool arguments: -Wl,–start-group “C:\Users\Brian Beuken\AppData\Local\Temp\/VisualGDB_ToolchainTestProgram.o” -o “C:\Users\Brian Beuken\AppData\Local\Temp\/VisualGDB_ToolchainTestProgram” -Wl,-gc-sections -L/opt/vc/lib -L/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf -lGLESv2 -lEGL -lbcm_host -lpthread -lopenal -lalut -Wl,–end-group
d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lGLESv2
d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lEGL
d:/sysprogs/bin/../lib/gcc/arm-linux-gnueabihf/4.9/../../../../arm-linux-gnueabihf/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lbcm_host
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit sta

Im not sure why it fails to find the files, any ideas?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Brian Beuken.

[Brian Beuken]

That sounds like an excellent solution, I’ll try that this week and update you.

 

[Brian Beuken]

one of my students who is better with linux, suggested a cleaner faster approach, open a terminal and try this. It compiles much faster.

wget https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb/gdb-7.12.tar.gz -P ~/Downloads/
tar vxzf ~/Downloads/gdb-7.12.tar.gz -C ~/Downloads/
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y
sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev -y
sudo apt-get autoclean
cd ~/Downloads/gdb-7.12
./configure –prefix=/usr –with-system-readline && make -j4
sudo make -j4 -C gdb/ install
sudo shutdown -r 0
gdb –version

 

[Brian Beuken]

Sorry I meant GDB 7.7.1

 

[Brian Beuken]

I’ve managed to work out what to do, posting here for the benefit of others who like me may not be very comfortable with linux and are having debugging hangs. The Rasbian version of GDB seems to be faulty, its also a little old at version 7.8.xxx with a specific Rasbian build.

Downloading the newer generic GDB (7.12.1) and unzipping it to a working folder was fine… then I tried to use

./configure –prefix=/usr –with-system-readline && make

however it seems  the readline libs were missing so this failed.. so I installed them with, you should avoid my error, and install it before attempting the GDB build.

sudo apt-get install libreadline-dev

I repeated the configure/make process this time for a successful result (note it takes quite some time)

This does not actually seem to replace the rasbian GDB, which still reported itsself as 7.8 Rasbian, but by then copying the new built version to a more accessable directory with
sudo cp gdb/gdb /usr/local/bin/gdb

After a reset, GDB now reports a new 7.12.1 version, not specific to Rasbian.

I don’t really know the final copy step was needed, or if a reset was all that was needed, but regardless I now have a later generic GDB in place and it seems on initial tests on a piece of code that hanged every time, to be much more stable in fact I’ve single stepped through a very complex piece of code with no problems.
Of course this may not be an ideal fix, if you need the specific Rasbian GDB, I do not know what functions it provides and may now be lost, but for the moment at least I am very happy not to be hanging the instant I trigger a breakpoint.
I will report back if I find any issues with this fix.

 

 

• This reply was modified 7 years, 9 months ago by Brian Beuken.

[Brian Beuken]

Thank you for the link.

I will try to follow the methods used.

 

[Brian Beuken]

ok, I know nothing at all about linux, can you provide an idiots guide to let me do that?

 

[Brian Beuken]

A little digging found this

http://gdb-prs.sourceware.narkive.com/a6QecxfF/bug-gdb-20143-new-arm-rpi2-debugging-top-fails-build-gdb-nrlhe3-gdb-7-7-1-dfsg-gdb-frame-c-472

 

it would appear to be an issue with the target GDB, but I have no idea how to resolve, is there any work around or is there a way to revert to a known working version of GDB?

[Brian Beuken]

I managed to widen the window,

/home/pi/dev/gdb-7.7.1+dsf/dsb/frame.c:472: internal-error get_frame_id: Assertion ‘fi->this_id.p’ failed

 

 

[Brian Beuken]

 

Ok I did that and it comes up with a list of timings but at the point of the GDB Timeout window the Session window reports and arroe at grame.c:472: internal-error: get_frame….. (I can’t scroll the window to see the rest)

A Problem internal to GDB has been detected, further debugging may prove unreliable, Quit this debugging session (y or n)

[Brian Beuken]

ok I’ll switch to msbuild and see what different that makes and report back.

 

[Brian Beuken]

It just locks up totally, the whole of Visual Studio freezes. Sometimes it comes back, but more often it stays locked, I can see the network lights blinking in a regular fashion but not other activity

After a while I have to power down the Raspberry, at which point I get the  taking too long dialogue. and I can then unfreeze VS.

 

I have not tried killing any processes, I’ll see if that makes a difference when I try again later

 

• This reply was modified 8 years ago by Brian Beuken.

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