NDK Debug for Nexus 9 arm64-v8a build not working for eclipse

Question

I keep getting the following error:

[2015-01-23 19:27:47 - NativeTestApp] Unable to find a compatible ABI    
[2015-01-23 19:27:47 - NativeTestApp] ABI's supported by the application: armeabi
[2015-01-23 19:27:47 - NativeTestApp] ABI's supported by the device: arm64-v8a, null

when my Application.mk is empty. When I have an Application.mk and I set APP_ABI to arm64-v8a, all it says is:

[2015-01-23 19:33:27 - NativeTestApp] Unknown Application ABI:     
[2015-01-23 19:33:27 - NativeTestApp] arm64-v8a
[2015-01-23 19:33:27 - NativeTestApp] Unable to detect application ABI's

Seems to me like the application wants to compile armeabi but the target is arm64. It works fine when not running as native debug.

Answer 1

The issue was an inherent bug with ndk-r10d and previous versions. This has been fixed with ndk-r10e, although it still does not work with eclipse since eclipse has its own ndk plugins. Google apparently intends on having ndk-gdb compatibility with the next Android Studio release.

EDIT: Sources:

https://developer.android.com/ndk/downloads/index.html#rel

"Fixed ndk-gdb for 64-bit ABIs. (Issue 118300)".

Answer 2

Native C/C++ debugging on 64-bit CPU equipped devices is not supported by the latest official version of ADT plugin for Eclipse (23.0.7).

I managed to update the sources to get the NDK debugging work on arm64-v8a (Nexus 9).

Try out this patched version: https://github.com/khaledev/ADT