[Qt-creator] Stepping into Qt code on OS X? - Picture 2.png (1/1)

[Eike Ziller]

On Feb 22, 2010, at 5:15 PM, ext Stephen Chu wrote:

> I still can not step into Qt source code on OS X. Any hit? Or do I need 
> to build from Qt source files? I don't have to do that with Windows 
> binary download.

Ah, sorry,
the problem is: The binary distribution of Qt on the Mac doesn't come with source code at all,
so obviously you can't step into it :)
So yes, the easiest solution is to build Qt yourself. This way the binaries are automagically connected to the sources, for gdb.
Though there might be a way to tell gdb to look for the sources at a specific place
(in this way using the binaries from the binary distribution, but the sources from a source download),
but I fail to come up with the right lines, right now.

++ Eike

> In article <stephen-E24424.10450916022010 at nntp.trolltech.com>,
> Stephen Chu <stephen at ju-ju.com> wrote:
> 
>> In article <127A4169-65DE-43FE-B14F-1A1B0B3D8889 at nokia.com>,
>> Eike Ziller <eike.ziller at nokia.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Feb 16, 2010, at 3:34 PM, ext Stephen Chu wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In article <hlc1e1$ebe$1 at eple.troll.no>,
>>>> Stephen Chu <stephen at ju-ju.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 2/15/2010 6:15 AM, Eike Ziller wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Feb 12, 2010, at 5:36 PM, ext Stephen Chu wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I am using 4.6 Qt SDK for Mac. I find that I can not step into Qt 
>>>>>>> source
>>>>>>> code like I can on Windows.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Does the Qt libs in SDK download not include debug information? Or I
>>>>>>> just didn't configure it right?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> The Qt binary distribution contains both "debug" and "release" variants 
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> the libraries.
>>>>>> But you have to explicitly tell the runtime linker that you want to use 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> debug libs - using release libs is the default, even if your 
>>>>>> application 
>>>>>> is
>>>>>> compiled as "debug".
>>>>>> If you use a qmake / pro-file based project in Qt Creator you can set a
>>>>>> flag in your run configuration, in Projects mode, in the run 
>>>>>> configuration
>>>>>> select "Use debug version of frameworks".
>>>>>> For more detailed information about debugging on the Mac, the 
>>>>>> corresponding
>>>>>> Apple documentation page is an interesting read:
>>>>>> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/technotes/tn2004/tn2124.html
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Please also note that Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) has a bug, that can 
>>>>>> be
>>>>>> worked around like described here:
>>>>>> http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-4962
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks for the help. I will try that once I have access to my Mac at
>>>>> work on Tuesday.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Any plan on making this automatic?
>>>> 
>>>> OK. That doesn't work. The attached screenshot was taken with a project
>>>> with "Use debug version of frameworks (DYLD_IMAGE_SUFFIC=_debug)" and
>>>> the latest Creator 1.3.8 snapshot.
>>> 
>>> Sorry, I can't see your screenshot, it's attached as text.
>>> 
>>> ++ Eike
>> 
>> Sorry. Forgot I was posting via NNTP. Here's the screen capture:
>> http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4002/4362798640_95cc2e0e2f_o.png
> 
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