J-Link and Linux gdbserver

    Hello, I was pointed with my question to this forum and now I hope getting help.
    We have some J-link devices available at our company. We got it with some development kits.
    Now we are looking if the J-links can be used under a Linux based development environment.
    What we are looking for is a gdb-server running on Linux.
    Whoever wrote the J-link gdb-server for Windows, can you please tell us if there are plans for a Linux solution?

    Regards
    Heinz

    Looking forward to this, not sure how well the open source solution + cheap hardware works, but that or the super pricey modules are the only option for linux host gdb development right now it seems.

    Hello Yumbrad,

    just for my understanding:
    When you develop on a Linux host, can't you connect to the GDB Server running on an other (Windows) machine (via TCP/IP) and would
    not that be a solution ? Or running the GDB Server in a virtual Windows machine on the same physical machine ?
    Or is the problem simply that you do not want to use Windows at all ?

    Thanks,
    Mike

    Yeah, mainly it's simplicity and convenience - to be able to use one Linux laptop with emacs, gdb, and a gdb-server. In theory a virtual Linux in an XP box or vice versa could do it, but then you need a windows license and are wasting cpu and ram on Windows. A linux gdb-server would be much cleaner and we wouldn't need to upgrade to Quad cores :) .. Emacs + gdb or VIM + gdb is a very efficient and pluggable "IDE"!

    (I'm looking into running cygwin-x + emacs and xterms, but have had a few crashes and the releases of software are behind the mainstream linux versions...)

    Hi all,

    We have just released a new version for Linux in which also a command line version of the GDB server is available:
    http://www.segger.com/download_jlink.html


    Best regards
    Alex

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