MCU 8051 IDE with SDCC stuck at compiling - c

I am a student and have been instructed by the college to use MCU 8051 IDE with SDCC for learning microcontroller programming. I installed this software successfully on many HP devices in college but when I am trying to use it on my home Dell Inspiron 15 3000 laptop following happens:
Starting compiler ...
cd "E:\\Embedded Systems Practical"
sdcc -mmcs51 --iram-size 256 --xram-size 0 --code-size 8192 --nooverlay --noinduction --verbose --debug -V --std-sdcc89 --model-small "prac4.c"
The IDE gets stuck here. Even after aborting the IDE freezes and needs to be restarted. I tried multiple fresh installs on my PC but nothing works.
I brought a pre-compiled version from the college PC to verify that the error is with SDCC and the simulation works perfectly fine.
Can someone help me how to resolve the unknown error?

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GDB stuck at “Configuring GDB Aborting configuring GDB”

I've installed (OSX Mojave 10.14.6.) Eclipse CDT and GNU MCU Eclipse plugin and finaly GNU Tools for ARM. My goal is to build and debug ARM code using GDB (arm-none-eabi-gdb).
I've created a Hello World project for Arm, which builds ok - but, debugging seems not to work with GDB (that comes with the Arm package). GDB gets stuck:
I have set the proper paths in Eclipse to arm-none-eabi-gdb.
I have signed the arm-none-eabi-gdb (with the same certificate that I used to sign GDB installed via brew into /usr/local/bin/gdb the day before - and it worked!).
I have also tried running Eclipse as root from command line.
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What to do?
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Mplabx 5.15 on Ubuntu 18.04 can not use ICD 3

I keep getting this error with ICD 3 when attempting self test:
Could not connect to the selected hardware tool. Please make sure the tool is not being used by another project in MPLAB X.
The device works fine under Ubuntu 12.04. Mplab can see the ICD3 device because it gets the correct serial number. lsusb reports the same values that Mplab reports as well. I tried running Mplab as root and that made no difference - this is not a permissions problem.
I tried this solution: https://www.microchip.com/forums/m1051283.aspx but it did not work. I also tried to close all projects so I had in the projects bar, and got the same error.
I tried the udevadm as suggested by this comment: https://www.microchip.com/forums/m1083236.aspx an it shows Mplab is trying to talk to the ICD 3:
$ udevadm monitor --property
monitor will print the received events for:
UDEV - the event which udev sends out after rule processing
KERNEL - the kernel uevent
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ACTION=bind
DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.2/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0
DEVTYPE=usb_interface
DRIVER=usbfs
INTERFACE=255/0/0
MODALIAS=usb:v04D8p9009d0100dcFFdsc00dp00icFFisc00ip00in00
PRODUCT=4d8/9009/100
SEQNUM=3378
SUBSYSTEM=usb
TYPE=255/0/0
UDEV [3219.387110] bind /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.2/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0 (usb)
ACTION=bind
DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:16.2/usb3/3-1/3-1:1.0
DEVTYPE=usb_interface
DRIVER=usbfs
ID_USB_CLASS_FROM_DATABASE=Vendor Specific Class
ID_VENDOR_FROM_DATABASE=Microchip Technology, Inc.
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MODALIAS=usb:v04D8p9009d0100dcFFdsc00dp00icFFisc00ip00in00
PRODUCT=4d8/9009/100
SEQNUM=3378
SUBSYSTEM=usb
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Mike
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First of all, my system:
Windows 10 (host) with MinGW, ARM Toolchain, MSYS, ...
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Guest) (gcc, arm toolchain, ...)
VirtualBox
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If I run the monitor.sh, the beginning will turn me in an error:
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[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/FourQlib
[2] https://github.com/Microsoft/FourQlib/blob/master/FourQ_ARM/tests_Cortex-M4/monitor.sh
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Some weeks later we start to work with tablets (Chineese cheap based on WM8650) and write some bash programs to communicate with our hardware. All fine.
Later i read that Ubuntu have insede a cross-compiler, so i was install the last version 12.04
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Segmentation fault
i was read this link : Cross compiling static C hello world for Android using arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc
But can't understand the right answer.
If some one knows a place or doc file to solve the simple job: cross compile a C program that run into my WM8650 tablet will be appreciated.
Best regards.
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