Eclipse Embedded CDT

A family of Eclipse CDT extensions and tools for GNU Arm & RISC-V development

ilg.gnumcueclipse.debug.gdbjtag.jlink - persistent values

The workspace storage

The J-Link settings are persistent in the workspace scope, and the storage file is located at:

.../workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/ilg.gnumcueclipse.debug.gdbjtag.jlink.prefs

The Properties

The J-Link preferences define the device name and all other J-Link related setting from the plug-in settings page.

flashDeviceName=STM32F407VG
gdb.client.commands=set mem inaccessible-by-default off
gdb.client.executable=${cross_prefix}gdb${cross_suffix}
gdb.client.other=
gdb.jlink.doDebugInRam=false
gdb.jlink.doInitialReset=true
gdb.jlink.doPreRunReset=true
gdb.jlink.enableFlashBreakpoints=true
gdb.jlink.enableSemihosting=true
gdb.jlink.enableSwo=false
gdb.jlink.init.other=
gdb.jlink.initialReset.speed=1000
gdb.jlink.initialReset.type=
gdb.jlink.preRun.other=
gdb.jlink.preRunReset.type=
gdb.jlink.semihosting.client=false
gdb.jlink.semihosting.telnet=true
gdb.jlink.speed=auto
gdb.jlink.swoEnableTarget.cpuFreq=0
gdb.jlink.swoEnableTarget.portMask=0x1
gdb.jlink.swoEnableTarget.swoFreq=0
gdb.server.connection=usb
gdb.server.connection.address=
gdb.server.doStart=true
gdb.server.endianness=little
gdb.server.executable=${jlink_path}/${jlink_gdbserver}
gdb.server.interface=swd
gdb.server.other=-singlerun -strict -timeout 0
gdb.server.speed=1000
install.folder=...
executable.name=JLinkGDBServer

Launcher defaults

All persistent values can have defaults.

For example the following defaults (plus many more) are available to configure the J-Link debug launcher:

ilg.gnumcueclipse.debug.gdbjtag.jlink/gdb.server.executable=${jlink_path}/${jlink_gdbserver}
ilg.gnumcueclipse.debug.gdbjtag.jlink/gdb.client.executable=${cross_prefix}gdb${cross_suffix}

ilg.gnumcueclipse.debug.gdbjtag.jlink/gdb.server.interface=swd (or jtag)

ilg.gnumcueclipse.debug.gdbjtag.jlink/gdb.jlink.enableSemihosting=true
ilg.gnumcueclipse.debug.gdbjtag.jlink/gdb.jlink.enableSwo=true

Defining these properties will provide the desired default values to the Debugging or Startup tabs.

ilg.gnumcueclipse.debug.gdbjtag.jlink/tab.main.checkProgram=false

Setting tab.main.checkProgram to true will check the program name field and disable the Debug button if the program name is not valid.

Install defaults

Defining these two properties will provide default values to the corresponding fields in the MCUGlobal SEGGER J-Link Path preferences page. The same variables are visible in the Run/DebugString Substitution page.

The executable name

The plug-in will use this definition as default for ${jlink_gdbserver}.

ilg.gnumcueclipse.debug.gdbjtag.jlink/executable.name=JLinkGDBServer

The executable location

The plug-in will take a best effort approach to find a location to be used as default for ${jlink_path}.

ilg.gnumcueclipse.debug.gdbjtag.jlink/install.folder=/Applications/SEGGER/Jlink

If this preference is defined and the executable is there, the plug-in will use it.

if not, the Windows Registry will be searched. If the InstallFolder key is found below the \\SEGGER\\J-Link subkey, and the executable is found there, the plug-in will use it.

Otherwise the plug-in will try a folder search.

search.path=\
${user.home}/Applications/SEGGER:\
/Applications/SEGGER

If this preference is defined, the plug-in will use it as search path, otherwise the specific platform defaults available in the preferences.ini file are used.

For each folder in the path, the plug-in tries to identify subfolders which look like folder/*/${jlink_gdbserver}; if multiple such subfolders are found (in case multiple versions, like J-Link_V494, J-Link_V496), the list of names is ordered lexicographically and the last one is used.

If not found, another test for folder/${jlink_gdbserver} is made.