[lldb-dev] I'd like to make Windows an officially supported platform for LLDB.

[Ted Woodward]

My big issue with Windows LLDB right now is the python support. I can do most things in the interpreter, but some things just don’t quite work right. For example, using lldb.debugger is spotty:

 

(lldb) script

Python Interactive Interpreter. To exit, type 'quit()', 'exit()' or Ctrl-D.

>>> print lldb

<module 'lldb' from 'R:\internal\branch-7.3\windows\latest\Tools\lib\site-packages\lldb\__init__.py'>

>>> print lldb.debugger

No value

>>> print lldb.debugger.GetSelectedTarget()

No value

>>> target = lldb.debugger.GetSelectedTarget()

>>> target.BreakpointCreateByName("main")

<lldb.SBBreakpoint; proxy of <Swig Object of type 'lldb::SBBreakpoint *' at 0x00

00000003EEBBA0> >

>>> quit

(lldb) breakpoint list

No breakpoints currently set.

(lldb) b main

Breakpoint 1: where = factwin`main + 28 at factorial.c:32, address = 0x00005130

(lldb) breakpoint list

Current breakpoints:

1: name = 'main', locations = 1

  1.1: where = factwin`main + 28 at factorial.c:32, address = factwin[0x00005130], unresolved, hit count = 0

(lldb)

 

These sequences work on Linux.

 

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From: lldb-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu [mailto:lldb-dev-bounces at cs.uiuc.edu] On Behalf Of Zachary Turner
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 5:51 PM
To: lldb-dev at cs.uiuc.edu
Subject: Re: [lldb-dev] I'd like to make Windows an officially supported platform for LLDB.

 

BTW, I actually uploaded a patch to do this.  http://reviews.llvm.org/D6805

On Mon Dec 29 2014 at 1:55:19 PM Zachary Turner <zturner at google.com <mailto:zturner at google.com> > wrote:

The LLDB homepage has the following to say about platform support:

 

LLDB is known to work on the following platforms, but ports to new platforms are welcome:

*	Mac OS X desktop user space debugging for i386 and x86-64
*	iOS simulator debugging on i386
*	iOS device debugging on ARM
*	Linux local user-space debugging for i386 and x86-64
*	FreeBSD local user-space debugging for i386 and x86-64

Windows is not listed here.  I would like to list it.  What level of functionality needs to be present, and how many tests need to pass before I can list Windows here?  Can I do it now, with the caveat that it's still experimental?  I have the test suite running (although many tests failing), source level debugging with DWARF, breakpoints, stepping, stack traces, etc all working with basic support, so this seems like a good time to announce support for Windows.  Obviously many things will not work, but we plan to support this long term, so it will just be a matter of time.

 

Along with an update to the supported platforms on the homepage, I plan to add some specific Windows instructions to the build page related to Python, required packages that need to be installed, etc.  

 

Additionally, I hope to follow this up with a post to the LLVM blog announcing experimental support for live debugging on Windows along with a very high level overview of our future plans.

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