Debug an application remotely from Eclipse and GDB server

You are about to dive into the arcane, but necessary world of remote debugging/cross-compiling. In this chapter, we will specifically take a look at a recipe for setting up remote debugging using the GDB server.

We will set up a specific kind of environment on your client desktop, another kind of environment on your BBB, and use an IDE as a way to ease the potential collision between these two worlds.

Wait a minute! Didn't we just do a debug recipe directly on BeagleBone Black using GDB? And can't we just develop and compile right on BeagleBone Black? Yes and yes.

But your BeagleBone Black is not quite powerful enough to serve as a serious development box. Ideally, what we want to do is hand off that work to a fancier, faster, desktop box. Otherwise, you will spend many unnecessary hours testing, compiling, debugging, and watching reruns of Doctor Who while waiting for the BBB to complete its tasks.

Why don't we just make something on...