README for ixGDB release

INTRODUCTION

ixGDB is Iluvatar CUDA source-level debugger for Linux OS, based on NVIDIA CUDA-GDB 10.2.

ixGDB provides the following capabilities:

• Provides a seamless debugging environment that allows simultaneous debugging of both GPU and CPU code within the same application.
• Supports debugging C/C++ applications and all CUDA applications, which might use CUDA driver APIs or CUDA runtime APIs.
• Supports setting breakpoints.

BUILD INSTRUCTIONS (example only, adjust as needed)

First, make sure that libtermcap and other required dependent packages are installed (try "sudo yum install ncurses-devel"). The "configure" command will report an error if some packages are missing.

Please note that the libexpat development headers must be present if ixGDB is to be used for cross-platform debugging.

Issue the following commands to build ixGDB:

./configure --program-prefix=cuda- \
    --enable-cuda \
    --enable-targets="x86_64-apple-darwin,x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu,\
    arm-elf-linux-gnu,m68k-unknown-linux-gnu" \
    CFLAGS='-I/usr/local/cuda/include' \
    LDFLAGS='-lpthread'
make

USING ixGDB

All standard GDB commands could be used for both CPU and GPU code debugging. In addition to that, ixGDB provides CUDA-specific command families like "info cuda ..." to query GPU states, "cuda .." to control debugger focus on GPU and "[get|set] cuda .." to alter/query CUDA debugger configuration. If you want to know more about how to use ixGDB, please go to Iluvatar CoreX support official site and use "ixgdb" as the keyword to find document "SDK Tools User Guide", which includes detailed usage of ixGDB.

COMMUNICATION

Gitee Issues: bug reports, feature requests, install issues, usage issues, etc.

LICENSE

Licensee's use of the GDB third party component is subject to the terms and conditions of GNU GPL v3:

This product includes copyrighted third-party software licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3 ("GPL v3"). All third-party software packages are copyright by their respective authors.

Consistent with these licensing requirements, the software listed below is provided under the terms of the specified open source software licenses.

Component    License
ixGDB        GPL v3