[lldb-dev] LLDB + UE4 on Android

[Pavel Labath via lldb-dev]

Hi Mikhail,

Modifying the build tool to include the build ID would probably be the
easiest solution to your problem. Please not that both the stripped
AND unstripped versions of the module need to have the (same)
.note.gnu.build-id section. I am not familiar with the build tool, but
"fixing" this should be as simple as adding "-Wl,--build-id" to your
compiler arguments for building the full .so. The subsequent strip
step should not remove the build-id (unless the tool uses some very
aggressive strip arguments).

Other possible solution would be to fix lldb to work in a
build-id-less scenario. We have been discussing trying to support this
just yesterday, but it's not yet clear when/if will that happen. The
problem there is that currently LLDB (in the ObjectFileELF snippet you
posted) falls back to computing a CRC of the whole module as its
"identity" if it cannot find a build it, which is not really working
as the CRC changes during stripping. One possible solution would be to
just do a checksum of only the allocatable ELF sections of the module,
which should hopefully create a strip-resistible identifier. If you're
interested in making this work, I think this would be a nice
improvement to lldb in general, and it should fix your problem.

let me know if you have further questions,
pl

On 9 March 2016 at 21:33, Mikhail Filimonov <mfilimonov at nvidia.com> wrote:
> Hello, fellow developers!
>
> I’m trying to debug Unreal Engine 4 sample on Android with LLDB 3.8 build from source - Win32 x86 liblldb.dll and Android ARM lldb-server : it can’t match the stripped module libUE4.so running on the device with a full version which is available on a host.
> Unreal Build Tool don’t add the .note.gnu.build-id or .gnu_debuglink sections to ELF files – and it looks that only if the stripped ELF .so running on a target does have one of these than it could be matched with a full ELF module located on a host - is that true?
>
> My reasoning is based on examination of
> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/lldb/blob/release_38/source/Plugins/Process/gdb-remote/GDBRemoteCommunicationClient.cpp#L4328
> and
> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/lldb/blob/release_38/source/Plugins/ObjectFile/ELF/ObjectFileELF.cpp#L790
>
> If so, I need to modify UBT to add the .build-id or .gnu_debuglink to a stripped libUE4.so
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