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

Tue Oct 21 07:50:30 PDT 2014

Sorry for answering much later (was dragged into other LLVM subprojects
recently), but figured I better get this merged before it diverges too much
and get lost... (to avoid someone ending up reimplementing everything again
from scratch).

Anyway, the biggest part of this branch was this commit:
https://github.com/xen2/lldb/commit/515956244784a9162183a6135068e893ba994532
"

It basically added a working implementation of ProcessWindows. It was good
enough to debug actual simple Win32 processes that I compiled with GCC
(might work on much bigger ones, didn't try it), including multithread
single stepping, breakpoints, variable watches, disassembler, etc... Also,
if user breaks inside a Win32 call, it could usually step out of it
properly as well (but might need improvements -- Win32 ABI support seems to
have improved a lot as well in the meantime in LLVM, Clang and GCC/Mingw32
so situation might be easier.

However some specific parts probably needed rewrite/review.
Considering it works as a whole, I figured it would be better to first
merge it, and rewrite the necessary part while doing the review (probably
various part would need better implementations, I might have misunderstood
some LLDB internals since I was discovering the project).

Actually I have already split mostly everything that was not part of
ProcessWindows plugin itself, and got it merged to trunk in the past
(2013/early 2014).

If I were to split it more, I am afraid it would probably be hard to
test/improve because it wouldn't work and be testable (actually it is not
_that_ huge, ProcessWindows.cpp, the probably only meaningful file of this
commit, is less than a 1000 line).
But I wouldn't mind trying to split it if people prefer it that way (as
long as it gets reviewed and merged smoothly).

Anyway let me know if you want me to try rebase and/or merge it (or not).

On 28 August 2014 00:11, Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com> wrote:

> You are welcome to try to upstream some of your work, but given the work
> I've done on refactoring the codebase, it might be difficult to do a
> straight rebase of your fork onto tip.  Instead of a rebase, which would
> force difficult merges at numerous points, perhaps easier would be to sync
> to tip and then merge small pieces of your branch directly across.  That
> said, work on LLDB has become more active recently, in part because of me
> working on Windows, but due to others as well, and so it may not be
> appropriate to do one huge merge with thousands of lines making it
> difficult to review.  Instead, it might be more appropriate (albeit more of
> an effort on your part) to merge small, isolated pieces of your branch at a
> time.
>
> Can you summarize what you've done on your branch and how much actual work
> you think it is?  Any limitations or known places where you dont' provide
> all the same functionality that LLDB does for other platforms?
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Virgile Bello <virgile.bello at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I suppose I should merge my branch back to LLDB trunk at some point?
>> I could rebase & merge the new ProcessWindows and DynamicLoaderWindows
>> plugins (
>> https://github.com/xen2/lldb/commit/515956244784a9162183a6135068e893ba994532)
>> and keep the other LLDB changes aside for now if they need further
>> discussion?
>>
>> Or any similar work in the way?
>>
>>
>> On 17 June 2014 05:45, Eran Ifrah <eran.ifrah at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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