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Bug 344470

Summary: Project-less debugging does not work natively on Windows
Product: [Tools] CDT Reporter: Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam>
Component: cdt-debug-dsf-gdbAssignee: Marc-André Laperle <malaperle>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam>
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: cdtdoug, km-news3, malaperle, pawel.1.piech
Version: 7.0   
Target Milestone: 8.3.0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
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Description Marc Khouzam CLA 2011-05-02 10:59:23 EDT 
In bug 344408 comment #1, Toni mentions that: "project-less debugging does not work natively on Windows, because the binary is not recognized as an executable by the default binary parser (which is always the ElfParser)."
Comment 1 Klaus Klaus CLA 2011-11-14 15:27:38 EST 
I stumbled over the same problem:

I choose a binary (compiled with MinGW) on my disk and try to debug it using Eclipse.

According to the CDT-FAQ this should be possible in Indigo:

When I run this debug configuration, I always get the error message "Program is not a recognized executable."

To verify this, I created the simple "Hello World ANSI C Project" example which is integrated in the CDT plugin. I could compile and debug the "hello.exe" example and it works like a charm.

If I close the Hello World project and create a project-less configuration like it is described in the FAQ, than I always get the error "Program is not a recognized executable" when i try to execute the same "hello.exe" example.

My system:
Win XP, Eclipse Indigo + CDT 8, MinGW, GDB 7.3.1
Comment 2 Marc Khouzam CLA 2012-05-18 13:47:41 EDT 
Maybe a way to fix this is to use what Marc-Andre used to get the JUnit tests to run on Windows.  See Bug 378834 comment 2
Comment 3 Marc-André Laperle CLA 2013-08-10 21:23:02 EDT 
This works now that bug 382462 is fixed.