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How to use launchfiles in Eclipse for debugging

asked 2011-03-10 01:47:54 -0600

tom

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I'd like to debug a particular node (openni_node) in Eclipse. To use that node normally one would call a launchfile like this: roslaunch openni_camera openni_node.launch, but this doesn't work on my computer at the moment (link).

Running roscore in terminal seems not to suffice to be able to then debug openni_node with Eclipse. Is there a way to use the same, aforementioned, launchfile in Eclipse in debug mode?

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answered 2011-03-10 22:16:24 -0600

Lorenzo Riano
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You could launch the node in debug mode by adding the following line to the <node> tag in the launch file: launch-prefix="xterm -e gdb --args" (see this tutorial). If you are not comfortable with a console based gdb you can use a front end interface like ddd.

You could configure Eclipse to use remote debugging, even if I think it's a long shot. You can find more instructions here.

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