Is it possible to attach a debugging session to a running program in eclipse CDT

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stu picture stu · Mar 17, 2009 · Viewed 40.9k times · Source

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?

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lothar picture lothar · Apr 6, 2009

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.

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