On Sun, Jul 20, 2014, at 06:20 AM, Tim Sander wrote: > Hi Liam > > I'm currently using Qt Creator for editing my embedded project, > > but thought it might be convenient to try to debug with it as > > well. > Indeed :-) > Be aware though that QtCreator only works with qmake and qbs as build > system due to limitations in Generic/CMake - ProjectManager. But > writing a qbs project file is pretty easy. > > > My debug hardware is a Black Magic Probe > > ([1]http://www.blacksphere.co.nz/main/index.php/blackmagic) > > which presents itself as a virtual serial device (CDC ACM) and, > > unlike openocd, speaks to GDB directly without requiring any > > other software running on the host. GDB provides the `target > > extended-remote` option to "Use a remote computer via a serial > > line". > BareMetal Plugin of QtCreator currently uses only the non-extended > but it should be easy to add the extended-remote stuff as QtCreator > itself supports this. > > > In this case, I don't have a GDB host and port to enter into > > the Bare Metal UI - just the path to the device in /dev. Is it > > still possible to use the Bare Metal plugin in this case? > Well currently it just supports pipe mode . So it start the gdb backend > with > network port which will not work. > > > If it's helpful, my .gdbinit looks like the following: > > > > > > > > target extended-remote /dev/tty.usbmodemDDD3DFD1 > > > > monitor jtag_scan > > > > att 1 > Sounds reasonable but currently not supported. As i don't have the > hardware i > can't test this. So you should be able to compile QtCreator and apply > patches > to move forward. I guess it should be not to hard to get this up and > running. > > Best regards > Tim
Hi Tim, Thanks for the quick response. I'm not sure I'll be able to work on this in the immediate term, but I'll definitely send some patches if I find some time to work on it. Cheers, Liam _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
