[lldb-dev] Is anyone using lldb on Windows to debug a _Windows_ application

[Eran Ifrah]

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Greg Clayton <gclayton at apple.com> wrote:

>
> > On Jun 14, 2014, at 3:12 AM, Eran Ifrah <eran.ifrah at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried both building lldb with MSVC and with MinGW both failed to debug
> native Windows executables (I actually tried 3 types of executables, 1
> built with MinGW, 1 with clang 3.4 and 1 with Visual Studio)
> >
> > This is the error I am getting:
> >
> > $ lldb D:/src/TestArea/ClangVC/Debug/ClangVC.exe
> > error: 'D:/src/TestArea/ClangVC/Debug/ClangVC.exe' doesn't contain any
> 'host' platform architectures:
> > (lldb)
> >
> > So the question is:
> > ​Is it possible to use lldb on Windows (for local debugging not remote
> debugging)
>
>
> No, we currently don't support native debugging on windows as far as I know

​Thanks for the clarifications.
​

> . With MSVC, they emit a proprietary debug information format (in .pdb
> files) that isn't documented. I am sure a native windows plug-in could be
> made to support binaries built with gcc or clang, but I don't believe
> anyone has done this yet.
>
> Greg
>
>


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