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Help needed to configure gdb

 

Hello All,

Sorry for the long mail.

I'm trying to debug one of my changes using gdb and I've run into a
roadblock.

This is what I did so far,

>> Built KiCAD using following commands

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
      -G "MSYS Makefiles"
      -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/mingw64
       -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/mingw64
       -DDEFAULT_INSTALL_PATH=/mingw64
       -DOCC_INCLUDE_DIR=/mingw64/include/opencascade
       -DPYTHON_INCLUDE_DIR=/mingw64/include/python3.8
       ../../
make -j 4 install

>> Started gdb using the following command

$: gdb ./kicad/kicad

...
...
Reading symbols from ./kicad/kicad.exe...
(gdb) run
Starting program:
I:\msys64\home\Pradeepa\kicad-source\build\debug\kicad\kicad.exe
[New Thread 16296.0x41b0]
[New Thread 16296.0x3e0c]
[New Thread 16296.0x2130]
Python path configuration:
  PYTHONHOME = (not set)
  PYTHONPATH = (not set)
  program name = 'python3'
  isolated = 0
  environment = 1
  user site = 1
  import site = 1
  sys._base_executable =
'I:/msys64/home/Pradeepa/kicad-source/build/debug/kicad/kicad.exe'
  sys.base_prefix = 'D:/a/_temp/msys/msys64/mingw64'
  sys.base_exec_prefix = 'D:/a/_temp/msys/msys64/mingw64'
  sys.executable =
'I:/msys64/home/Pradeepa/kicad-source/build/debug/kicad/kicad.exe'
  sys.prefix = 'D:/a/_temp/msys/msys64/mingw64'
  sys.exec_prefix = 'D:/a/_temp/msys/msys64/mingw64'
  sys.path = [
    'D:/a/_temp/msys/msys64/mingw64/lib/python38.zip',
    'D:/a/_temp/msys/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8',
    'D:/a/_temp/msys/msys64/mingw64/lib/python3.8',
    'D:/a/_temp/msys/msys64/mingw64/lib/lib-dynload',
  ]
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the
filesystem encoding
Python runtime state: core initialized
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'

Current thread 0x00003154 (most recent call first):
<no Python frame>
warning: Fatal Python error:
warning: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding
warning:
[Thread 16296.0x3e0c exited with code 1]
[Thread 16296.0x2130 exited with code 1]
[Thread 16296.0x41b0 exited with code 1]
[Inferior 1 (process 16296) exited with code 01]
(gdb)

I've set the PYTHONHOME to /mingw64

Now I can launch KiCad in gdb. However, it now gives many errors,

Ex: can't open file
I:\msys64\home\Pradeepa\kicad-source\build\debug\share\kicad\resources\images.tar.gz

I feel that it's something to do with paths, however, it's hard to figure
out without knowing how everything fits together.

Can someone please give me a hand?

Thanks!
Best Regards,
Pradeepa Senanayake.

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