[Qt-creator] Xcode 5 no longer has GDB included. Ramifications?

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

If GDB can support code coming from clang-llvm, perhaps a simpler interim
solution would be to build and ship a copy of gdb in the OSX bundle for
QtCreator?


On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:16 PM, André Pönitz <
andre.poenitz at mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:41:45AM -0400, Michael Jackson wrote:
> > I was out at Apple's Developer ready to download and try out Xcode 5 and
> > was looking through the release notes when I came across this little
> > line:
> >
> >
> https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/
> > WhatsNewXcode/Articles/xcode_5_0.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40012953-SW8
> >
> > ***** Important: Xcode 5 does not support use of the LLVM-GCC compiler
> > and the GDB debugger. Existing projects configured to use LLVM-GCC and
> > GDB will be reconfigured to use the LLVM compiler and LLDB debugger when
> > opened by Xcode 5. Please file a bug using bugreporter.apple.com for any
> > issues that prevent you from moving to Xcode 5 for this reason.  *****
> >
> > Will QtCreator work with LLDB? Last I heard it does not. At least the
> > 2.8.2 version that I am using.
> >
> > Any updates/thoughts/embellishments on this would be great.
>
> In theory, 2.8.2 has some "experimental" LLDB support covering basic
> stepping, simple local start, populating most of the debugger views etc.
>
> If it doesn't work _at all_ for you, please file a bug report, including
> version of LLDB and a full debugger log. I am currently using some "179.5"
> version that came with earlier XCode, and a "300.0" build from source.
>
> There's quite a couple of open issues related to not-yet-implemented
> functionality already, and I intend to address a bit of that until 3.0
> beta, but I doubt we will have feature parity with GDB/Linux at 3.0 release
> time.
>
> As usual, any help is welcome. Currently most pressing issues are mostly
> grunt work, adding a few parameters here and there, stuff that's easy to
> get started with, "just" needs to be done, but quite a bit of that ;-}
>
> Andre'
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