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Andrew Neil
Andrew Neil
Super User
March 29, 2021
Question

CubeIDE: debug multiple instances of a project?

  • March 29, 2021
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either to debug multiple instances of the same project; eg, two BLE peripherals

or to debug multiple projects; eg, a BLE Central and a BLE peripheral.

In the latter case, I guess you could put each one in a separate Workspace - but that doesn't help in the former case.

This can't , surely, be an uncommon situation?

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Andrew Neil
Andrew NeilAuthor
Super User
March 29, 2021

Hmmm ... even with separate Workspaces, it doesn't work:

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this is on a B-L072Z-LRWAN1 with the on-board ST-Link converted to a J-Link

https://www.segger.com/products/debug-probes/j-link/models/other-j-links/st-link-on-board/

Is this just a "feature" of the J-Link conversion, or would the original ST-Link be just the same?

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Ozone
Ozone
Principal
March 30, 2021

I think you would need separate GDB server instances for each debug instance, with different port settings.

Andrew Neil
Andrew NeilAuthor
Super User
March 30, 2021

How would you do that?

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Radosław
Radosław
Associate II
March 30, 2021

Just change telnet port for one of projects, and set proper SN for debug probe.

Andrew Neil
Andrew NeilAuthor
Super User
March 30, 2021

Yes - SN set already.

Where does the port need changing - just in the Project? also for the J-Link?

Is there a recommended "secondary" port number?

Note that this "just works" with 2 instances of Segger Ozone - apart from specifying SN, nothing else needs fiddling with.

And it still leaves the question of how to debug 2 instances of the same project

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.
Radosław
Radosław
Associate II
March 30, 2021

Same project? it will be very hard to manage, source code will be shared, the best way will be a copy of this project, and two instances od CubeIde.

Andrew Neil
Andrew NeilAuthor
Super User
March 30, 2021

Of course the source code would be shared - that's the whole point.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.
Andrew Neil
Andrew NeilAuthor
Super User
July 13, 2022

Someone else with the same issue:

https://community.st.com/s/question/0D53W00001fQaKnSAK/stm32cubeide-multiple-stlink-debug-of-same-project

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