[Interest] QtCreator, Mac OSX and LLDB?

[Raul Metsma]

There is one more issue with gdb and gcc with xcode

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Apple-Confirms-Deprecation-of-ATS-framework-in-Xcode-4-6-Developer-Preview-1-304229.shtml
Xcode 4.6 is also the last major release that will include the llvm-gcc compiler and the GDB debugger, according to Apple.
Developers will need to include the LLVM Compiler and LLDB debugger in their workflows.

Raul

On Jan 22, 2013, at 10:20 PM, André Pönitz <andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 01:03:23PM +0000, Danny Price wrote:
>> What is the status of LLDB support via Creator on OSX?
> 
> Nobody had time to look into it since Summer or so it as far as I know.
> 
> My main problem with LLDB right now is that it does not even pretend
> to play nicely in the cross-platform area (today it did e.g. not link
> on Linux, and yes, I am trying fairly regularly) so going with LLDB
> on Mac essentially would mean spending quite some effort to replace
> one single-platform solution with another single-platform solution.
> 
> Not exactly an attractive proposition, even I understand that we'd
> probably need to do it at some point anyway, at least when the iOS
> port is maturing.
> 
>> I noticed that the latest version of Creator (2.6.1) has the option to
>> use LLDB as a debugger per-kit.
> 
>> But if I try to launch a LLVM-built
>> executable in debug mode, it just hangs.
> 
> The compiler itself should not matter a lot.
> 
>> I really hope that this gets some love soon as GDB is useless when
>> used via Creator. It's gotten to the point where I have to import the
>> project into XCode 4 (which I dislike) just to get reliable debugging.
> 
> "Useless" is a bit strong as far as I can tell. I am not aware of any
> open show-stoppers in JIRA right now, and in the admittedly rare
> cases where I use it it appears to work. But functionality-wise it's
> certainly not on par with GDB-on-something-like-Fedora.
> 
> Feel invited to have a look at the issue yourself and/or help to
> spread the word that being cross-platform helps adoption. 
> 
> Andre'
> 
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