step into LUA script from within C program

[whatscookin]

Hi All,

I am trying to step into a LUA script (using gdb) which is being
called from within C program i.e. the C programs invokes the LUA
script. Now, the machine on which the lua and C program resides does
not support any GUI. I tried using clidebug that comes with scite-
debug using the instructions given here: http://lua-users.org/wiki/SciteDebug
under section “Integrated Lua and C/C++ debugging”


I did the following:

1) copied gscite folder (after extraction) to /root/ (as I am logged
in as root)


2) created .SciTEUser.properties and added the following to it

ext.lua.startup.script=/root/gscite/scite-debug/extman.lua

debug.target=[n]:gdb;/usr/local/xyz/bin/c_executable[h];<path to
script_to_debug.lua >


3) added the following in my lua script (script_to_debug.lua)

local path = ';/root/gscite/{{scite-debug}}/lua_clidebugger/?.'

package.path = package.path .. path .. 'lua'

package.cpath = package.cpath .. path .. 'so'

WIN=false

GDB=true

require "debugger"

io.stdout:setvbuf("no")

pause('debug')


and copied /root/gscite/scite-debug/lua_clidebugger/debugger.lua to
the dir containing script_to_debug.lua (otherwise require “debugger”
won’t work)


4) ran gdb <path to c_exe> <pid of exe> and added breakpoint at a
function inside script_to_debug.lua

But gdb doesn’t step into script_to_debug.lua.



Please help me out in as to how to proceed ?

Do I have to add script_to_debug.lua symbols to gdb and how to do
it?

Do I need to run clidebug as a process within gdb and how?

Or something else is to be done for this scenario?



Any help would be deeply appreciated. Thanks in advance.



Regards

Tolstoy

[whatscookin]