Question

I’m writing a netscape iplanet plugin (on solaris/C using eclipse) which is basically a shared object with specific entry points, and I’d like to be able to debug the shared object with eclipse’s debugger (gdb). I remember doing something similar in AIX where you could make xldb attach to a running process. Is it possible to get eclipse to run gdb to attach to a running binary? And should I expect grief because I want to debug a dynamically loaded piece of code?

Answer 1

Yes it is. You need to go to the Lauch Configuration Dialog and select ‘C++ Attach to …’. Depending on your Eclipse version there may be only one or more ‘C++ Attach to …’ variants available.