Debugger tab

The Debugger tab lets you configure how your debugger works.

Note: To debug your application, you must build its executable for debugging. Also, the Debugger tab settings affect your executable only when you debug it, not when you run it.

Generic debugger settings

Debugger
The debugger dropdown lists the available debuggers for the selected launch configuration type. The list also varies depending on whether you're debugging a remote or a local target.
Stop on startup at
By default, this option is selected and the default location is main. If you deselect it, the program runs until you interrupt it manually, or until it encounters a breakpoint.
Advanced
Clicking this button opens the Advanced Options dialog, which lets you check and uncheck the Variables and Registers boxes.

Check these boxes if you want the system to track every variable and register as you step through your program. Uncheck Variables to manually select individual variables to work with in the Variables view in the debugger. Unchecking Registers works the same way for the Registers View.

Note: If you choose to track all variables or registers, your program's performance may decrease.

Debugger options

The Main and Shared libraries tabs let you specify options for the debugger that you selected. These options include but aren't limited to:
GDB debugger
Specify the GDB version to use. The default value of gdb means the IDE selects the version based on the architecture of the executable. The IDE comes with several GDB versions, each of which is named based on its supported architecture (e.g., ntoarmv7-gdb). Information on the debugger is given in the gdb entry in the QNX Neutrino Utilities Reference.
The only time you might want to change this field is if you're running a different gdb binary (e.g., a patched version) or if the IDE fails to pick the correct debugger version.
GDB command file
Specify the path of a file containing commands to be executed by GDB. When you fill in this field, the IDE runs gdb with the -command option and uses the specified command file as that option's value. The default path is .gdbinit.
Verbose console mode
See all of the commands sent to GDB, and all of the responses returned from GDB.
Use full path to set breakpoints
Set breakpoints if you have many files with the same base name in the project. When file names are identical but their paths are different, setting this option ensures that breakpoints are set for the appropriate file, as expected.
Load shared library symbols automatically
Watch line-by-line stepping of library functions in the C/C++ editor. You may want to deselect this option if your target doesn't have much memory; the library symbols consume RAM on the target.
Stop on shared library events
Choose this option to make the debugger break automatically when a shared library or DLL is loaded or unloaded.