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Re: Help needed to configure gdb

 

Thanks Jon. I tried that and in that case gdb launched kicad, but it couldn't find the source file to set a breakpoint. If someone can give me an example of setting the breakpoint that would be great. I tried relative path and full path, but still couldn't set the breakpoint in copper_zone_dialog.cpp.- Pradeepa Sent on the go with Vodafone
-------- Original message --------From: Jon Evans <jon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 7/7/21  11:28 pm  (GMT+10:00) To: Pradeepa Senanayake <pradeepa.kck@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: KiCad Developers <kicad-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [Kicad-developers] Help needed to configure gdb  gdb ./kicad/kicad is starting KiCad from the build directory.This isn't a fully-supported way of debugging KiCad, but if you want to do this, you must set the environment variableKICAD_RUN_FROM_BUILD_DIR=1Alternatively, since you are running `make install` above, you can use gdb to debug KiCad at the installed location, rather than inside the build directory.This will probably be a more reliable mechanism.-JonOn Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 9:24 AM Pradeepa Senanayake <pradeepa.kck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: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 commandscmake -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) runStarting 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 encodingPython runtime state: core initializedModuleNotFoundError: 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 encodingwarning:[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 /mingw64Now 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.gzI 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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