[lldb-dev] ProcessWindows plugin (allow Windows process debugging)

[Greg Clayton]

Virgile,

That is great new about the windows branch you have. It would be good to probably stage this as you stated in this order:

1 - submit patches to top of tree lldb for basic things you found that aren't related to windows
2 - submit a patch for windows native debugging

As you said, it will be good to get all of the organization done on your end the way you want it prior to submitting the patches. And you are correct that multi-threading on Linux has long been fixed. As long as you are in sync with the current SVN top of tree (or our read only GIT top of tree), your patches should be easy to submit.

We would love to be able to support native windows debugging in LLDB for GCC and clang produced binaries.

Greg

On Feb 17, 2014, at 7:27 AM, Virgile Bello <virgile.bello at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> 6 months ago I worked on LLDB to add Windows process debugging support.
> 
> I had to put this project little bit aside for a little bit. Now that I have some more time to focus on that project again, I wanted to share what I have been doing so far, and hopefully as it gets more mature it would be great to have it merged in trunk later.
> 
> So far I pushed most of my changes on github:
> https://github.com/xen2/lldb/commits/msvc12
> 
> The most important commit is probably "Added ProcessWindows and DynamicLoaderWindows plugins.". Some of the commits might be only temporary (needed for debugging to work). Some others commits are trivial/minor and could probably be cherry-picked immediately in trunk.
> 
> It is far from being ready to be merged yet (unpolished commits, lot of file rearrange/rename, code sharing, cleanup and comments to do here and there).
> 
> Also, at the time (might have been fixed yet), I used Linux implementation as a guideline but noticed it didn't seem to work for multithreading (StopInfo mixing up each other). As a result I had to change some stuff to have multithreading working. That might be something that could be interesting to have back on Linux as well.
> 
> Status: I am now able to use LLDB as a library to actually debug real windows processes (including stack traces, variables, multithreading, etc...) on simple executables (compiled with either gcc with -gdwarf-2, or clang).
> 
> Note: I might force push the branch msvc12 on github since I want to rewrite some commits and rebase. If people are interested in helping, please let me know and I would stop doing that.
> 
> Hope it will help starting the effort to have a full debugging support on Windows!
> 
> Thanks
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