Caffe: how to debug caffe?

Created on 4 Feb 2015 · 7Comments · Source: BVLC/caffe

I want to know how to debug caffe step by step. I can not find the main function

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whjxnyzh123

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You have to compile caffe with debug symbols:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

This is a general gcc/gdb question, you are probably better off having a look around stackoverflow and co for help on this kind of stuff.

BlGene on 6 Feb 2015

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Hi,

have a look at ./tools/caffe.cpp, otherwise try using GDB, for example:
gdb --args ../../install/tools/caffe train --solver=testNet_solver.prototxt

BlGene on 5 Feb 2015

Reading symbols from /public/home/kli/caffe/.build_release/tools/caffe...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
what's wrong?

whjxnyzh123 on 6 Feb 2015

You have to compile caffe with debug symbols:

cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug

This is a general gcc/gdb question, you are probably better off having a look around stackoverflow and co for help on this kind of stuff.

BlGene on 6 Feb 2015

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Thank you very much, BIGene. I am not very familiar with linux

whjxnyzh123 on 6 Feb 2015

Wait, I messed up I updated my previous comment.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 1:18 AM, whjxnyzh [email protected] wrote:

Thank you very much, BIGene. I am not very familiar with linux

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BlGene on 6 Feb 2015

How to debug C++ in general is out of scope for this, but thanks @BlGene for pointing out that the debug mode of the build needs to be turned on. Please discuss Caffe-specific gdb questions on caffe-users.