Re: openocd+gdb combo

Jan Vrany via Gdb <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 21:16 +0000, Jan Vrany via Gdb wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-02-23 at 16:11 +0000, Schneider, Maximilian via Gdb wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have written a relatively complex but very useful external loader+gdb python script for a piece of memory connected to one of the many chips we use.
> > I can now use openocd to connect and subsequently gdb with the aforementioned loader and script to read/write/erase !
> >
> > However It is still a pain to have to start an openocd session before being able to launch the gdb command.
> >
> > Is there a known way to package openocd and gdb together so that I can get convenient calling conventions like bellow?
> > ./read_the_thing > memory_dump.bin
> >
> > How would you recommend creating portable installations of gdb so that they can be shipped quickly to the unfortunate windows users?
> > I can imagine writing an extra tool that manages the sequencing of openocd+gdb but I would need executables I can run without installation to make it palatable for my colleagues.
> >
> I was facing similar problem a year ago. Took me a bit to figure
> out how to make a .zip you can download, unpack wherever you want 
> and use, including working python.
>
> If you think it would help, I can try to extract the build script 
> from my CI and share some time later this or next week.

You may find the script here: https://github.com/janvrany/binutils-gdb-devscripts

HTH, Jan


>
> Jan
>
> > Best Regards,
> > Maximilian Schneider
>
>
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