Role of the Linker in OCDI Debugging (Microprocessor SDK)
The linker links all intermediate object files, external files, and operating system libraries to produce the application image. The On Chip debugging modes require the linker to generate the map file that is used to resolve symbols of the built image. You can execute the linker with the correct command line options to generate the map file in a format that the map parser can understand. You can execute the linker with command line options to remove all debugging information and all symbols unless you want to debug an embedded application at the source level. LabVIEW does not use the debugging information for the built application. The map file does not have to be generated for targets with downloadable module support, such as the VxWorks downloadable module. The target must resolve all symbols at the module load time.