[Qt-creator] Can't debug on Mojave with QT Creator 4.9.1

[Simon Gornall]

> On 31 May 2019, at 07:06, Eike Ziller <Eike.Ziller at qt.io> wrote:
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>> On 31. May 2019, at 16:01, Simon Gornall <simon.gornall at mac.com> wrote:
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>>> On 31 May 2019, at 03:00, Eike Ziller <Eike.Ziller at qt.io> wrote:
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>>>> On 31. May 2019, at 08:37, André Pönitz <apoenitz at t-online.de> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 03:12:48PM -0700, Simon Gornall via Qt-creator wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I can't seem to get the debugger to start on my Mac, installed using the Mac installer (open
>>>>> source version), when I do click on Debug, it launches a terminal window, which then contains:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Last login: Thu May 30 12:46:31 on ttys019 source
>>>>> /var/folders/ll/jqpkccpn1m91qf41447mdlyh0000gn/T/tmpXAK2Pt simon% source
>>>>> /var/folders/ll/jqpkccpn1m91qf41447mdlyh0000gn/T/tmpXAK2Pt Badly placed ()'s.
>>>> 
>>>> What is in this script and who calls that?
>>> 
>>> It is generated by Qt Creator’s openTerminal.py
>>> https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt-creator/qt-creator.git/tree/share/qtcreator/scripts/openTerminal.py
>>> 
>>> We have to do some fancy stuff to get the run environment passed into the shell opened in Terminal.app by “Run in Terminal”.
>>> Only tested with bash…
>> 
>> 
>> Oh :(
>> 
>> I don’t suppose there’s any chance of supporting more shells (popular ones like [t]csh, zsh etc.) ?
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>>>>> simon% If I edit that script (/var/folders/...) it seems to be a bash script, and my shell is
>>>>> set to /bin/tcsh (for a variety of reasons). Is there some place I can set my shell variant in
>>>>> QT Creator, and have Qt Creator write out something my shell will accept ?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I already tried
>>>>> 
>>>>> exec'ing /bin/bash before launching QT Creator from the commandline setting the environment
>>>>> SHELL variable to /bin/bash launching the last line in the script (which seems to be what is
>>>>> actually necessary) from the terminal window.  ... but no joy. Any other ideas ?
>>> 
>>> The problem is that the script is sourced in a new Terminal window, which first of all itself starts a shell. That uses the login shell as specified in the user’s login options. The SHELL variable from Qt Creator’s run configuration is not yet set at that moment - actually that is what the sourced script is doing.
>>> 
>>>> Do you need the terminal at all? If not try to de-select  [ ] Run in Terminal  in the Project settings
>> 
>> I don’t, and I’d be happy to try that, but [*blush*] I … can’t find that.
>> 
>> - I’ve looked in Projects [icon on the left] -> Project Settings, but it only has options for ‘Editor’, ‘Code Style’, ‘Dependencies’, ‘Clang Code Model’ and ‘Clang tools’ (which is just about suppressed diagnostics)
> 
> On that page you’ll have also some kit(s) (named by Qt versions if you got them through the Qt Project installer) with “Build” and “Run” sections.
> Select “Run”.
> You’ll see a run configuration setting which shows e.g. your executable that will be run, a bit below that is a checkbox “Run in terminal”.

I’m not seeing anything there like that, unless I’m being denser than usual… Here’s what I have (linked, to avoid sending an image to X-million people :)

	http://xanadu.gornall.net/imgs/qt/projects-settings-page.png <http://xanadu.gornall.net/imgs/qt/projects-settings-page.png>

Unless you mean, click on the ‘Manage kits’ link, but clicking on one of the kits …

	http://xanadu.gornall.net/imgs/qt/kits.png <http://xanadu.gornall.net/imgs/qt/kits.png>

... just seems to go to the Preferences -> Kits panel 

Cheers
	Simon

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