[lldb-dev] [Lldb-commits] LLGS for Free/NetBSD

[Kamil Rytarowski via lldb-dev]

On 25.10.2016 01:43, Saleem Abdulrasool via lldb-dev wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Ed Maste via lldb-commits
> <lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org <mailto:lldb-commits at lists.llvm.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 24 October 2016 at 06:26, Pavel Labath <labath at google.com
>     <mailto:labath at google.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     > It's not my place to tell you how to work, but I'd recommend a
>     > different approach to this. If you base your work on the current
>     > FreeBSD in-process plugin, then when you get around to actually
>     > implementing remote support, you will find that you will have to
>     > rewrite most of what you have already done to work with lldb-server,
>     > as it uses completely different class hierarchies and everything. I'd
>     > recommend starting with lldb-server right away. It's going to be a bit
>     > more work as (I assume) freebsd implementation is closer to what you
>     > need than linux, but I think it will save you time in the long run. I
>     > can help you with factoring out any linux-specific code that you
>     > encounter.
> 
>     I definitely second the approach Pavel suggests here, and am happy to
>     work with others on refactoring the Linux lldb-server so that we can
>     get it to support both FreeBSD and NetBSD at the same time.
> 
>     A direct port of the current FreeBSD support probably would result in
>     a basic level of support running sooner, but that work would be
>     largely thrown away in a future migration to lldb-server.
> 
> 
> Just to throw out another option: DS2 (DebugServer2) at
> http://github.com/facebook/ds2 may be another option to getting remote
> debugging working.  It already has basic BSD support, so adding NetBSD
> support shouldn't be too difficult.
>  


It's an interesting program, but for now I would leave it for later as
it's out of LLDB.

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