• From here you can download all tools necessary to develop applications under Linux (or Unix).
• Sourceforge.net is the home of the PRC tools.
• the pilot-link portal has all the stuff you need to communicate with your Palm.
• the lastest version of PilRC (the resource compiler) can be found at sourceforge.net.

As usual, programs have to be compiled with gcc "-g" option, if you want to debug them using gdb. This adds debugging information to the program and lets the program ask for a feature with creator ID "gdbS" ("gdbS" belongs to gdbpanel; this program is obsoleted by POSE). If the feature is set, the program asks to enter debug mode.

POSE automatically sets this feature and checks, if a debugger is connected to POSE. If so, a break at PilotMain() is forced and the control is given to the debugger connected.

What remains to discuss is how to connect gdb to POSE; the patched version of gdb knows a command "target pilot <host>:<port>". By default POSE creates two sockets at port 2000 and a user defined port (in ~/.poserrc exists a option DebuggerSocketPort=6414, which seems to define this port). It remains to start gdb and load the program you want to debug ("file <prg>"; choose the program without suffix ".prc") and enter the command "target pilot localhost:2000". If you then start the program in POSE that you want to debug, you should find gdb at its command prompt.

I recommend you to create a file ".gdbinit" in the directory, where you start gdb. This file should contain a line

target pilot localhost:2000

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