Compile from Source - Build Latest GDB and Binutils on Linux

Published: 15 October 2021
on channel: Mike Shah

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►Lesson Description: In this lesson I show you how to build GDB (GNU Debugger) 12 and the associated bin utils from scratch on Ubuntu Linux 18.04. I will show you how I resolve dependency bugs, and how I generally navigate building Linux build errors as I encounter them.

The total install time running on one core on a relatively new system (Intel I7 10th generation) takes around 30 minutes.

Note: You can speed things up by using: make -j 8
If you run into trouble, I recommend doing a single core build however.

00:00 Introduction
00:50 Finding the Git Repository and log
2:20 Navigating our files
3:00 Running configure
3:40 Attempting to make in the source directory
4:30 Fixing a first dependency error
5:10 Warning on doing parallel builds
5:40 Installing Bison and Flex
6:30 Googling our dependencies
7:10 Build your software in a separate directory
8:00 make distclean to clean up our old build attempt
8:40 Yet again, another missing dependency
9:15 Luckily make is a smart build tool
9:36 Success now where are our files?
10:30 Running gdb
11:02 Fixing our install path
12:40 Success

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