ndk-gdb Overview

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'ndk-gdb' OverviewIMPORTANT: IF YOU ARE DEBUGGING THREADED PROGRAMS, PLEASE READ THE           SECTION BELOW TITLED 'Thread Support'.I. Usage:---------The Android NDK r4 introduced a helper shell script named 'ndk-gdb' toeasily launch a native debugging session for your NDK-generated machine code.The script is located at the top-level directory of the NDK, and shallbe invoked from the command-line when in your application projectdirectory, or any of its sub-directories. For example:    cd $PROJECT    $NDK/ndk-gdbWhere $NDK points to your NDK installation path. You can also create analias or add $NDK to your PATH to avoid typing it every time.IMPORTANT: Native debugging can only work if *all* these conditions are met:    1. Your application is built with the 'ndk-build' script:        Building with the legacy "make APP=<name>" method is not        supported by ndk-gdb.    2. Your application is debuggable:        In other words, your AndroidManifest.xml has an <application>        element that sets the android:debuggable attribute to "true"    3. You are running your application on Android 2.2 (or higher):        ndk-gdb will not work if you try to run your application on        previous versions of the system. That does not mean that your        application should target the Android 2.2. API level, just        that the debugging session should happen on a 2.2+ device or        emulator system image.        IMPORTANT IMPORTANT IMPORTANT !!            If you are using the ADT Eclipse plug-in to build your            application, make sure you're using version 0.9.7 or            later.            If you are using the 'ant' build tool, make sure that you            have the latest revision of the SDK Platform components.            The following minimal revisions are required:                Android 1.5      r4                Android 1.6      r3                Android 2.1      r2                Android 2.2      r1            These should be available through the SDK updater.            If these conditions are not met, the generated .apk will            not contain required support files and native debugging            will not be possible.'ndk-gdb' handles many error conditions and will dump an informative errormessage if it finds a problem. For example, it:    - checks that adb is in your path.    - checks that your application is declared debuggable in its manifest.    - checks that, on the device, the installed application with the same      package name is also debuggable.By default, ndk-gdb will search for an already-running application process,and will dump an error if it doesn't find one. You can however use the --startor --launch=<name> option to automatically start your activity before thedebugging session.When it successfully attaches to your application process, ndk-gdb will giveyou a normal GDB prompt, after setting up the session to properly look foryour source files and symbol/debug versions of your generated nativelibraries.You can set breakpoints with 'b <location>' and resume execution with 'c'(for 'continue'). See the GDB manual for a list of commands.IMPORTANT: When quitting the GDB prompt, your debugged application process           will be stopped! This is a gdb limitation.IMPORTANT: The GDB prompt will be preceded by a long list of error messages,           where gdb complains that it cannot find various system libraries           (e.g. libc.so, libstdc++.so, liblog.so, libcutils.so, etc...)           This is normal, because there are no symbol/debug versions of           these libraries corresponding to your target device on your           development machine. You can safely ignore these messages.II. Options:------------To see a list of options, type 'ndk-gdb --help'. Notable ones are:  --verbose:    Print verbose information about the native debugging session setup.    Only needed to debug problems when you can't connect and that the    error messages printed by ndk-gdb are not enough.  --force:    By default, ndk-gdb aborts if it finds that another native debugging    session is running on the same device. Using --force will kill the    session, and replace it with a new one. Note that the debugged program    is *not* killed and will be stopped again.  --start:    By default, ndk-gdb will try to attach to an existing running instance    of your application on the target device. You can use --start to    explicitly launch your application before the debugging session.    NOTE: This launches the first launchable activity listed from your          application manifest. Use --launch=<name> to start another one.          See --launch-list to dump the list of such activities.  --launch=<name>:    This is similar to --start, except that it allows you to start a specific    activity from your application. This is only useful if your manifest    defines several launchable activities.  --launch-list:    Convenience option that prints the list of all launchable activity names    found in your application manifest. The first one will be used by --start  --project=<path>:    Specify application project directory. Useful if you want to launch    the script without cd-ing to the directory before that.  --port=<port>:    By default, ndk-gdb will use local TCP port 5039 to communicate with    the debugged application. By using a different port, it is possible    to natively debug programs running on different devices/emulators    connected to the same development machine.  --adb=<file>:    Specify the adb tool executable, in case it is not in your path.  -d, -e, -s <serial>:    These flags are similar to the ADB ones and allow you to handle the    case where you have several devices/emulators connected to your    development machine.        -d:          Connect to a single physical device        -e:          Connect to a single emulator device        -s <serial>: Connect to a specific device or emulator                     where <serial> is the device's name as listed                     by the "adb devices" command.    Alternatively, you can define the ADB_SERIAL environment variable    to list a specific device, without the need for a specific option.  --exec=<file>:  -x <file>:    After connecting to the debugged process, run the GDB initialization    commands found in <file>. This is useful if you want to do something    repeatedly, e.g. setting up a list of breakpoints then resuming    execution automatically.III. Requirements:------------------At the moment 'ndk-gdb' requires a Unix shell to run. This means thatCygwin is required to run it on Windows. We hope to get rid of thislimitation in a future NDK release.The other NDK requirements apply: e.g. GNU Make 3.81 or higher.IV. Thread Support:-------------------If your application runs on a platform older than Android 2.3, ndk-gdb willnot be able to debug native threads properly. Instead, the debugger will onlybe able to put breakpoints on the main thread, completely ignoring theexecution of other ones.The root of the problem is complex, but is essentially due to a very unfortunatebug in the platform, which was only discovered lately.The gdbserver binary that comes with this NDK has special code to detect thiscondition at runtime and adapt its behaviour automatically (in other words,you don't have anything special to do when building your code).What this means in practical terms are:- If you are on Android 2.3, or a prior platform release which has had the  platform bugfix back-ported to it, you will be able to debug native  threads automatically.- If you are not, you will only be able to debug the main thread  (as in previous NDK releases). You will also see the following message  when launching ndk-gdb (just before the gdb prompt):     Thread debugging is unsupported on this Android platform!  If you place a breakpoint on a function executed on a non-main thread, the  program will exit with the following message in GDB:        Program terminated with signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.        The program no longer exists.