<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi all!</span><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'm starting up an effort to get LLDB running on Android. I just wanted to reach out, say hi, and give you an outline of how I'm thinking about attacking this effort. I'm looking for feedback, so please fire away if you have any suggestions or comments!</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br></div><div> I'm thinking of attacking the effort in stages, looking something like this:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Get LLDB up and running against a local Linux x86 process. </div>
<div><br></div><div> It looks like many aspects of this already work. I've heard there might be some rough edges around core dump support, DWARF 4/5 support, and possibly some optimized debug info support on the clang side, so any work here might touch those areas.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I see we have what looks like 2 buildbots dedicated to building lldb in linux scenarios:</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/lldb-x86_64-debian-clang" target="_blank">http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/lldb-x86_64-debian-clang</a></div>
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<a href="http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/lldb-x86_64-linux" target="_blank">http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/lldb-x86_64-linux</a></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Android currently builds linux host tools as 32-bit. Both of those buildbots above appear to be 64-bit. I'd love to get the equivalent of an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS x64 buildbot building a 32-bit LLDB executable. How can I go about setting that up? </div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><br></div><div>2. Get the LLDB remote solution up and running against a remote Linux x86 process. </div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
Here we get to the first high-level question mark: do we continue to use gdbserver, use debugserver, or base something on lldb-platform? I haven't dug into this yet. I've heard some thoughts on this topic, such as (a) LLDB has extended the gdb remote protocol and offers some benefits over using gdbserver, (b) debugserver is currently very part-specific and might be a painful way to go in the short term (but I haven't heard comments on the longer-term potential benefits of toughing through that), and (c) lldb-platform is a reasonable starting point and has been used to get some traction bringing up LLDB on other chipsets. Like in (1), I'll want to set up a build bot that builds and runs remote tests in this environment.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Any thoughts on this?</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>
<br></div><div>3. Get the LLDB remote solution up and running against a remote Linux ARM system.<br></div><div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The idea being that it will be easier for me to poke around on the Linux ARM system than it would be to go straight for the Android device or emulator, but gets me working against an ARM system, one step closer to a typical Nexus device. And helps out ARM Linux remote support in the process (if there are any weak spots). I don't know yet what the scope of work here might entail. Similar to (2), I'll want to set up a build bot that builds and runs remote tests in this environment as well.</div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><img src="https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>4. Getting LLDB remote solution up and running against an Android ARM device.</div>
<div><br></div><div>5. Either directly implement or make it straightforward for Android vendors to fill in anything necessary to use our remote solution on other Android hardware.</div>
<div><br></div></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div>I look forward to working with the LLDB community on this effort! Suggestions or comments are appreciated.<br></div><div><br></div>
<div>Sincerely,</div><div>Todd Fiala</div></div>
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