Re: How to debug SNORT source code?

[Awais Ali via Snort-devel <snort-devel () lists snort org>]

Thank you Lewis,

I am not familiar with GDP, can we do debugging with eclipse?

Thanks,
Awais Ali

On Fri, 3 Apr 2020, 18:36 Al Lewis (allewi), <allewi () cisco com> wrote:

> You can use GDB directly. Compile with “–enable-gdb –enable-debug
> –enable-debug-msgs”.
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> Break at main .. then off you go..
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> *Albert Lewis*
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> ENGINEER.SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
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> Cisco Systems Inc.
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> Email: allewi () cisco com
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> *From: *Snort-devel <snort-devel-bounces () lists snort org> on behalf of
> Awais Ali via Snort-devel <snort-devel () lists snort org>
> *Reply-To: *Awais Ali <awaisali901 () gmail com>
> *Date: *Friday, April 3, 2020 at 12:33 PM
> *To: *"snort-devel () lists snort org" <snort-devel () lists snort org>
> *Subject: *[Snort-devel] How to debug SNORT source code?
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> Hello all,
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> I want to debug SNORT source code. For example,  i want to see how SNORT
> source code works when packet comes, passes through decoder, preprocessors
> and detection engine.
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> Actually i am writing my own preprocessor where i will have to modify
> decode.c and other files but i am getting errors in different source files
> so i want to debug SNORT source code. Is there any environment or IDE
> doing this?
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> I tried with Eclipse but i am unable to debug SNORT inside eclipse.
> Looking for help please.
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> Thanks,
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> Awais Ali
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