[Qt-creator] Debugging Python Extensions in QtCreator

[Ziller Eike]

On May 20, 2014, at 2:56 AM, Campbell Barton <ideasman42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Recently I was writing a CPython module, in QtCreator and wasn't able
> to debug it.
> 
> Note that I would imagine this applies to any C-Extension, where you
> don't directly execute the resulting library.
> 
> The issue I ran into, is QtCreator wont allow the debugger to start
> because it can tell there are no debug symbols in `/usr/bin/python`.

That should only be a warning that still allows proceeding to debug.

> However when using gdb I was able to run python and add breakpoints
> into my C extension without any troubles.
> 
> Is this a known issue or is there some way to tell QtCreator to ignore
> if the binary has no debug syms?

Options > Debugger > Warn when debugging “release” builds

Br, Eike

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