Hi On Thursday 24 October 2013 03:11:25 Mike Sheldon wrote: > I'm currently in the process of attempting to create a port of MeeSpot > (a MeeGo spotify client) for Ubuntu Touch,
Yay! Have been using that it on the N9 quite a bit :) Looking forward to your port. > however while it runs fine on > my desktop it's crashing at launch when executed on the phone. It'd be > very helpful if I could run the application within gdb to see what's > going on, however attempting to launch any application from a terminal > on the phone (rather than going through the graphical launcher) results > in the error: "QUbuntu: Could not create application instance". > > What's the correct way to launch an Ubuntu Touch application within > GDB? > I think you're missing the --desktop_file_hint argument. You must pass a .desktop file with each binary to tell Ubuntu to which application it belongs. ./myapp --desktop_file_hint=/absolute/path/to/a/file.desktop If it still crashes, you should be able to run it in gdb like this. ssh into your phone and start up gdb with your binary: gdb /path/to/binary when gdb is loaded, run it providing the --desktop_file_hint argument: r --desktop_file_hint=/path/to/file.desktop After that, use gdb as usual. Hope this helps, Michael -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
