The packager control panel provides three controls to set up the development and target environments for interactive debugging.

From the Transcript pull down the XD menu and choose Enable Remote Debugging. This can also be done in the passive image through the same pulldown menu in the XD Transcript.

The interactive debugging facility requires that a connection be set up between the workstation with the development image and the target system where the packaged image runs. Usually this is a TCP/IP connection.

To establish this connection, you must include the interactive debug TCP/IP feature, ‘Interactive Debug using TCP/IP’ in the passive image.

You can either add the feature to the passive image when you create the passive image, or you can alter the passive image after creation:

Tell the remote debugger where to open by setting the internet protocol (IP) address of workstation running the development image. The debugger is triggered by execution of the reduced image on the target machine. It is actually opened on the workstation running the development image.

In the passive image, choose Set Workstation Address… from the XD Transcript XD pulldown menu, and then enter the internet protocol address of the development image.

The examples are based on the development image being the same as the one used to package the example code. This is the best situation to have. However, if the image used to package the runtime is no longer present, the interactive debugger can still be opened in a reconstructed development image. Considerations in building that image are

The image startup class of the packaging instructions should be AbtInteractiveDebugStartup.