On 06/01/18 23:38, Matthew Brush wrote:

On 2018-01-06 10:42 AM, j.dunn@piments.com wrote:

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On 06/01/18 12:34, j.dunn@piments.com wrote:

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HI,

I am having trouble getting geany-scope to step and debug a simple test file.

Full description here:

https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1461#issuecomment-355559491

I have applied the patch to fix scope locking up. But when I run the executable for debugging I don't get the usual debug functions ( step etc ) enabled, only terminate.

I get the impression that it is not connecting to gdb but don't see any output showning an error or enabling determination of the problem.

I have no prior experience with this debugger since it used to lock-up. Could be finger trouble or something not correctly set up.

Any suggestions of where to look.

thanks. _______________________________________________

BTW I built plugins with the following, is that sufficient, or do I need to include other options ?

./configure --with-geany-libdir=/usr/local/lib --disable-all-plugins --enable-debugger --enable-scope

After running configure like that, it should say 'yes' or 'no' next to Scope in the summary message, letting you know whether it will be built or not. Debugger and Scope are mutually exclusive, both different front-ends to GDB. Make sure you don't have both of them activated at the same time inside Geany by looking in the Plugin Manager dialog. The one called "Debugger" should be unchecked and the one called "Scope" should be checked.

Can you describe step-by-step from a clean slate exactly the steps you're performing, including descriptions of which specific buttons you're pressing and whatnot (or make a screencast video/gif and link to it)? The steps mentioned by Lars[0] sound accurate. Are you sure you're not using Geany's builtin run/execute feature instead of the one that is provided by the Scope plugin? Can you also confirm that using GDB on that program just on the normal command-line works?

P.S. Unrelated, but you might want to move the #include in your test program out to the top-level instead of inside the function. It's likely to confuse any tools which are dealing with symbols, having so much stuff included into function scope and will surely blow up during compilation if you ever do that with a header that contains inline functions or such.

Regards, Matthew Brush

Hi Matthew,

thanks for the well targeted questions.

Yes, what Lars describes is what I am also doing, except that he renamed my main.c to hello.c

During ./configure I do get a limited number or 'yes' lines including both Scope and Debugger. I checked that after running configure and it was consistent with args provided.

I confirm that in the plugin manager, I only have scope checked. Debugger is not checked.

As I noted, when I use the gear icon ( ie the geany run ) to run the prog from geany, I get a VTE terminal window which shows the output msg. If I use Debug | Run/Continue I get no output anywhere I can see and the only debugging action this is not greyed out is Terminate.

Running from gdb directly showed a message saying I needed to install glibc-debuginfo . This was not shown anywhere in scope, again suggesting that it is not connecting to gdb at all. Having installed this I can step and break the executable and get expected output using gdb from command line.

Returning to restart geany and scope ; re-select the executable and run it from the debug menu , I get the same results, all degugging icons are grayed-out. The status bar shows "Busy" bottom , right. All I can do is 'terminate'.

In scope.conf , I see the following but I do not get any VTE when running under scope. Only when running directly in geany. debug_console_vte=true

Nothing showing is system logs, nothing new on terminal from which geany is run.

Any idea where to look ?

thanks

On 07/01/18 10:34, Matthew Brush wrote:

On 2018-01-07 12:00 AM, j.dunn@piments.com wrote:

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Any idea where to look ?

There might be something useful in `Help->Debug Messages`.

Regards, Matthew Brush _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users

Thanks but sadly, no.

I cleared the log , reran the prog and nothing new appeared.

In the "debug console" at the bottom of geany screen I see the following:

010-file-exec-and-symbols <pathtoexe>/main -gdb-set inferior-tty /dev/pts/5 07-list-target-features

Note , nothing under target features. I also see reports of a "target" tab which I do not have. Though that may be from an older version.

Is the target tab still supposed to be there?

thx