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title="NEW --- - error: failed to load objectfile for static-linking archives?"
href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=28017">28017</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>error: failed to load objectfile for static-linking archives?
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<th>Product</th>
<td>lldb
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<th>Version</th>
<td>3.6
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Macintosh
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<th>OS</th>
<td>MacOS X
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>P
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<th>Component</th>
<td>All Bugs
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>lldb-dev@lists.llvm.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>chris+llvm@qwirx.com
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<th>CC</th>
<td>llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org
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<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
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<pre>I'm having trouble debugging my application with LLDB on Mac because it seems
to fail to find some of the compiled object files, which are inside a static
link library (.a file). Objects which are compiled directly into the binary
seem to be OK.
I get errors like this when I first try to access line-level information:
(lldb) l BackupStoreFile.cpp
error: backupstore.a(BackupStoreFile.o) failed to load objfile for
/Users/chris/projects/2004/boxi/bb-git/bin/bbackupquery/../../debug/lib/backupstore/backupstore.a
error: backupstore.a(BackupCommands.o) failed to load objfile for
/Users/chris/projects/2004/boxi/bb-git/bin/bbackupquery/../../debug/lib/backupstore/backupstore.a
...
error: common.a(autogen_CommonException.o) failed to load objfile for
/Users/chris/projects/2004/boxi/bb-git/bin/bbackupquery/../../debug/lib/common/common.a
error: Could not find source file "BackupStoreFile.cpp".
I suspect that either lldb does not fully understand the .a archive format, or
another bug prevents it from locating the correct object file inside the
archive. It is definitely there:
chris@Chriss-MacBook-Pro(backupstorepatch)$ ar t
/Users/chris/projects/2004/boxi/bb-git/bin/bbackupquery/../../debug/lib/backupstore/backupstore.a
__.SYMDEF
BackupAccountControl.o
...
BackupStoreDirectory.o
BackupStoreFile.o
BackupStoreFileCmbDiff.o
...</pre>
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