[fpc-pascal] Cross-compile vs native

[Michael Schnell]

On 01/28/2015 12:51 PM, Ewald wrote:
>
> [this might be an extremely silly proposition, please forgive me] Why
> don't you run lazarus through ssh? Or use vnc?
The (small) target system does not have any graphic-related stuff like 
X, qt or gtk. So VNC,  or remote X will not work.

Of course I can  access a command line via SSH.


> Well, _if_ the cross-compilation works, why not just ssh in to the
> target system and run gdb there?
Happily, in fact the client system is advanced enough to allow running 
the full gdb (not just gdb-server).

Of course this does work. And I did just this. But direct manual work on 
gdb is rather painful. That is why it would be great to use Lazarus for 
remote debugging.

To do this there are two ways:

1) (this is activated in Lazarus by default) using remote gdb on the 
server and have same access gdb-server on the client. Here I have not 
been able to find / compile the appropriate remote gdb / gdb-server pair 
for the ARM target.

2) (the code to do this is commented out in Lazarus and supposedly not 
decently working) accessing a full gdb on the client via SSH.

-Michael