Eclipse cdt remote build and remote debug on different servers

Question

There are similar questions about that but I couldn't find this specific scenario :

Computer A - Linux build server

Computer B - Linux debug server

Computer C - Windows, my local comp.

I have a c/c++ project -eclipse cdt. Can I edit the source file on Computer C, build on Computer A and transfer to Computer B, then debug it via my local project? How can I do this with existing tools/config with Eclipse?

Answer 1

As a first step you might want to try gdbserver: Remote debugging with Eclipse CDT or Better variable exploring when debugging C++ code with Eclipse/CDT or Eclipse cdt remote build and remote debug on different servers offer advice on that.

Depending on your linux distribution, a hudson server can be set up as Computer B. Hudson supports - Ubuntu, Debian, Oracle Enterprise Linux, RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE as can be seen here.

Hudson has been developed in Java, but it is language agnostic, so it works for C as well.

In general, you can commit your changes (from Comp A directly or to a central Git Server) and Hudson (running on Comp B) will build it and deliver it to your debug server (Comp C), on which you are running GDB.

I lack experience with CDT, so I can't give you a more detailed instruction on how to set it all up apart from linking to manuals. And you'd have to test if GDB supports the Windows/Linux mix.