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QNXIDE, Why does the debugger not load symbols for my shared library?

First, it needs to find this library in your shared library path on the host. You usually have to explicitly specify this in the Shared Libraries tab in the Debug tab of the launch configuration. Second, the library file name must be the same as the so name with "lib" prefix. You can check the so name if you open Properties view for the library (.so file) or open it in the Binary editor. For example, if your so name is aaa.so.1 and your library name is libaaa.so, gdb will be unable to match the two, because of the extra version number. To avoid this problem when debugging, do not use so version number when you generate the so name for your library. Third, the library has to be compiled with debug information.