The gdbserver is not available on the device image

[Zoltan Balogh]

To enable debugging of applications with C++ code the target device must have gdbserver package installed.

Right now for that the app developers need to turn the device writable and manually install the gdbserver package.

It would be much more convinient and secure to keep the device readonly and have the gdbserver pre-installed on the device.

The disk space should not be a concern as all installed files from the package use up 215KB (binary - 190KB + doc - 20KB + manpage - 5KB)

[Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson)]

This seriously needs to be fixed asap. You can't expect developers to install the gdbserver manually via adb :(

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

This should only be seeded for developer version and not consumer versions.

[Neil McPhail (njmcphail)]

I'm not sure I agree this should only be in developer versions. I need a phone which works (hence stable channel), but also like to develop and debug apps. The 2 use cases are not mutually exclusive.

[XiaoGuo, Liu (liu-xiao-guo)]

Some days ago, I tried to install the gdbserver, however, we still could not debug the scope in SDK. I think there could be some problem with the gdb debugging.

[Ted Gould (ted)]

Discussed this with Pat on IRC. While we want to keep most general debugging tools off the standard image we're good with gdbserver because it is small and really just a channel into the device. It allows the tool to be installed on the host, so it's not really putting all the tools into the device itself.

[XiaoGuo, Liu (liu-xiao-guo)]

Debugging on Desktop (15.04) and on emulator (14.04) crashes. Attached please find the captured picture.?

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

@seb do you maintain this now?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

not really, Lucasz does rather

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

lets just put this in now

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

ubuntu-touch-meta (1.221vivid23) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Add gdbserver. Needed by QtCreator debugging applications and scopes.
    (LP: #1364872)

 -- Timo Jyrinki <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:05:23 +0200