ESP32 DevKitC Debugging

[Adham Aboud]

Hello All,

How do I debug DevKitC board using Eclipse ??

Regards,
Adham

[kolban]

Howdy,
For the DevKitC, if you want source level debugging, you will need an additional JTAG adapter. Have a read at all the articles found at this web page on JTAG debugging and see if this helps.

http://esp-idf.readthedocs.io/en/latest ... index.html

[k.ifantidis]

Hello mr.Kolban.
I'm using ESP-WROVER-KIT and a PC with all the tools needed for programming with esp-idf SDK. The PC is running windows 10 with Eclipse Oxygen.3A. I'm not having problems in programming the board but I can't use the debugger. After reading the http://esp-idf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/# I realized that i miss GDB Hardware Debugging plugin from Eclipse and I can't download it from marketplace or anywhere else.

Would you be kind enough to inform me about which Eclipse version I have to use in order to use the Debugging tools via the gui ??
Even in linux(ubuntu18) I can't find the GDB Hardware debugging plugin. Some more details than the readthedocs website would be great.

Best regards, Kostas.

[kolban]

I checked my Eclipse Oxygen and the C/C++ GDB Hardware Debugging module is part of the Eclipse C Development Tools (CDT). See the following:

https://www.eclipse.org/cdt/

Make sure that you have the C development tools package installed in your Eclipse.

This is installable from Help > Install New Software ...

I would be surprised if you were working in C/C++ development on Eclipse and didn't already have this installed.

[k.ifantidis]

I'm feeling like a huge newb right now . I added wrong url in Eclipse search and that's the reason why I couldn't install the module. I've installed the GDB Hardware Debugging module successfully and I'm going to test out my code and examples given in esp-idf.readthedocs.
Thank you very much for your reply. It helped me figure out some "fundamental" stuff about Eclipse IDE.

Have a nice evening, Kostas.