[MonoDevelop] Remote debugging support?

[Martin Pilot]

>On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 6:22 AM, Ian Norton
><ian.norton-badrul at thales-esecurity.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 10:10:00AM +0100, Michael Hutchinson wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Martin Pilot <mpilot at matrox.com> wrote:
>>> > Sorry if this is known info, but I've been spending way too much time
now
>>> > looking for this to no avail.
>>> >
>>> > Is there a way to perform remote debugging with MonoDevelop? Just to
be
>>> > clear, by this I mean executing in debug mode an EXE on a remote
system.
>>> >
>>> > By digging in the MonoDevelop.Debugger.Soft sources, I found a way to
enable
>>> > CustomSoftDebuggerEngine, which has a proto UI allowing me to specify
the IP
>>> > address of the target machine by defining MONODEVELOP_SDB_TEST as an
>>> > environment variable. All my efforts to get this to work failed
miserably,
>>> > with the debugger being stuck showing "Waiting for debugger to
connect".
>>> >
>>> > Any info on this? What server should run on the debuggee side? Another
>>> > instance of MonoDevelop? Monotools-server?
>>>
>>> Start Mono on the target with the commandline arguments
>>> --debug --debugger-agent=transport=dt_socket,address=${IP}:{${Port}
>>> and the debugger agent inside the runtime will connect out to the IDE
>>> listening on IP:port.
>>>
>>> The CustomSoftDebuggerSession GUI has a field for launching a process
>>> that you could use to kick this off over ssh, and it can automatically
>>> substitute the variables AgentArgs, IP, Port, Console, e.g.
>>> --debugger-agent=${AgentArgs}
>>
>> Hi Mike,
>>
>> I've been trying to get the same things working and havn't had any luck
at all.
>> Neither with server=y or not on the debugee.
>>
>> I've even tried running this on a single host and using 127.0.0.1
addresses, MD
>> simply stays saying 'waiting for debugger'
>>
>> This is what I'm trying:
>>
>> IP: 127.0.0.1
>> Port: 10000
>> [Listen]
>>
>> mono --debug \
>> --debugger-agent=transport=dt_socket,address=127.0.0.1:10000 \
>> remotehello.exe
>>
>> I thought I'd have more luck if I ran the debuggee as a server but can't
get
>> far with that either, not sure what 'output port' means in the MD dialog.
>>
>> Hope you can help.
>
>Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been paying enough attention to
>the mailing list recently.
>
>Server means that the app starts a server and waits for MD to connect to
it.
>
>Output port is optional, it's for embedding hosts that can dup2 the
>console output over a port.
>
>If you're still having problems, I suggest you inspect open ports and
>check the debugger is actually listening on the correct interface and
>port, and that the debuggee can reach it.
>
>-- 
>Michael Hutchinson
>http://mjhutchinson.com
>
Thanks Mike, 

We were able to get it to work in the meantime. Your info complements what
we've been able to figure out by ourselves.

Thanks again,

Martin Pilot.