GDB with ECLIPSE GUI over remote server?

Question

I would love to debug my software with ECLIPSE as front end to GDB. Our build set up as follows.

• Linux server with code base
• Windows accessing code base via Samba (Eclipse IDE)
• Software is built on Linux server with makefiles (No ECLIPSE control here, its more of an editor for now)
• NFS mount to target (it's embedded SW)
• remote debugging using command line GDB

I do not have an option to change my build environment, its too much of effort, moreover Cygwin is too slow compared to Linux.

The only way I can access the server is with ssh. The server has only basic X-Window manager, so VNC is not an option.

Is there any way I can make use of ECLIPSE as an IDE rather than as editor ? I am mainly interested in utilizing its remote DEBUGGING feature.

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EDIT

ERROR establishing communication

TARGET

#./mipsel-linux-gdbserver-7.1 :1234 hello

HOST

$ gdb hello
(gdb) target remote 10.201.122.177:1234
Remote debugging using 10.201.122.177:1234
warning: while parsing target description (at line 10): Target description speci
fied unknown architecture "mips"
warning: Could not load XML target description; ignoring
Reply contains invalid hex digit 59

I also did try recompiling a gdb server from cygwin sources for my target, but the results were no different. My target architecture is MIPS.

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POSSIBLE ANOTHER APPROACH

Is RSE (Remote System Explorer) alternate to what I am trying to achieve ?

Answer 1

Target description specified unknown architecture "mips"

Your target is (obviously) mipsel-linux.

Your GDB is (most likely) native linux-i386 or linux-x86_64. You can see how your GDB was configured with

(gdb) show version
...
This GDB was configured as "x86_64-linux".

In order to debug mipsel-linux target, you need to build a cross-gdb (--host=x86_64-linux --target=mipsel-linux or some such) and then get Eclipse to invoke that GDB instead of the native one.