edKit is a set of tools to help debugging applications in embedded environments. This repository contains the agents that must be embedded in the software to monitor.

Docmentation about the design and use of edKit is available on my blog:

http://blog.oakbits.com/index.php?tag/edKit

edKit depends on the following libraries: - json-c - cpputest (optional) - libunwind (optional)

Run the following command to build the agents:

./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

edleak is the tool that tracks memory consumption. The edleak clients available in other repositories allow to easily detect memory leaks in long life processes (daemons). The agent is composed of a library the must be preloaded in the process to inspect.

For example to check for memory leaks on "./my_target", run:

$> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libedleak.so ./my_target

The following environment variables can be used to configure edleak:

- oaktools_httpd_port : The listening port of the embedded http server. The
default value is 8080.

edleak relies on dladdr to retrieve symbols name. If the target symbols names are not found by edleak, use the following flags in the compiler:

- -Wl,-export-dynamic
- -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
- -fno-omit-frame-pointer

Html clients have been tested on firefox and chromium. If files are served from the filesystem, then Chromium must be started with the "allow-file-access-from-files" option:

$> chromium-browser --allow-file-access-from-files