Debugging Android NDK C/C++ code in Eclipse - breakpoints are not hit

Question

I downloaded Android SDK Bundle for Linux and Android NDK. ADT was installed, I installed CDT.

I created a Android project and added native support (jni). Then I wro

Answer 1

After struggling a lot to debug on Eclipse this is my recipe:

Do the usual steps:

• Add android.os.Debug.waitForDebugger(); before loading your native library. This might help.
• Add APP_OPTIM := debug in Application.mk
• Build with ndk-build NDK_DEBUG=1

Then, what I found different:

• Open a console and run:

adb pull /system/bin/linker /obj/local/armeabi/linker

Depending on your device you might have to write armeabi or armeabi-v7a. You only need to do it once (I noticed that running ndk-gdb manually was doing that. Executing that command manually the breakpoints started to work)

• Finally, to debug use the menu "Run -> Debug As -> Android Native Application"