I have downloaded the sources from the Valgrind trunk and built it for using on an embedded Linux system(Montavista Linux) powered by an ARM926(ARMv5t architecture). Everything went well until I tried to run it to check some application I've made; Valgrind tells me:
"valgrind: failed to start tool 'memcheck' for platform 'arm-linux': No such file or directory".
Trying to run any other tool gives the same message.
For make install I used the –prefix option pointing to the embedded system's filesystem which is mounted through NFS(e.g. –prefix=/home/NFS_mounted/opt/valgrind). I checked the installation location and the lib directory there contains the proper tools; I also checked the corresponding pkgconfig file for Valgrind and it seems to be OK so I'm kind of clueless right now and can't figure out what's going wrong. 2 questions:
- Is it correct to use/install a cross-compiled Valgrind like that? Maybe I'm doing something wrong regarding the setup, or maybe there is something involving the host system that I'm missing(gdb/gdbserver like).
- Has anyone tried running it on ARM architectures? I'm aware that the support is fairly recent so I'm wondering if I could get decent results.
Best Answer
Run this command in your target device
where
./valgrindis installed directory path (given in./configure)