Qt-interest Archive, December 2007
Re: [Mac] Not seeing Qt source in Leopard debugger...
Message 1 in thread
Dave,
I can't thank you enough for finding this! I tried to debug into Qt
just this morning and it didn't work. Now I'm rebuilding 4.3.3 with -
dwarf2, but in about two hours I'm going to owe you a beer.
Cheers,
Rob
On Oct 31, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Dave Thorup wrote:
> Well, to answer my own question it looks like these are the steps
> you need to take to see Qt source in the Xcode 3 debugger under
> Leopard:
>
> 1) Build the Qt libraries with the "-dwarf2" option ( ./configure -
> dwarf2 ... ) as DWARF is the default format in Leopard (vs. Stabs
> previously).
> 2) In your Xcode project, double-click on your executable in the
> Executables section of the Xcode project and select "Use <debug>
> suffix when loading frameworks." Where <debug> is selected from a
> popup menu.
>
> Neither of these steps were required in Tiger. #1 wasn't necessary
> because the default symbol format in Xcode was the same as that used
> when building Qt. I'm not sure why you need to do #2 now though.
>
> Hopefully this is helpful to someone in the future.
> --
> Dave Thorup
> Software Engineer
> http://bibblelabs.com
>
>
> On Oct 30, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Dave Thorup wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to track down some problems that our current project is
>> having on Mac OS X 10.5 but I'm not seeing any Qt source code when
>> using the Xcode 3 debugger. The Qt library is a recent 4.4
>> snapshot from 10/29 and was configured with "-debug". I haven't
>> ever had this problem in Tiger when using Qt debug libraries so I'm
>> double-checking the 10/29 snapshot to make sure it's not something
>> to do with that (highly unlikely).
>>
>> Has anyone else had problems getting Qt source to display in the
>> Xcode 3 debugger? Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks!
