[lldb-dev] Symbol Server for LLDB

Murali Venu Thyagarajan via lldb-dev lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org
Mon Mar 25 11:37:02 PDT 2019


Another question that I had is,

Can this GDB style be inferred for MacOS packages? Will there be a build-ID
in the package and the corresponding dSym package?

Thanks,
Murali

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:29 AM Murali Venu Thyagarajan <
murali.thyagarajan87 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks a lot Adrian and Leonard.
>
> I'm interested in setting up a local symbol server for my application that
> is being built on MacOS. Pretty much like a indexed symbol server that is
> used with Windows applications with Windbg.
>
> Thanks,
> Murali
>
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 10:04 AM Leonard Mosescu <mosescu at google.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Not exactly a full symbol server solution, but LLDB supports the GDB-style
>> symbol lookup
>> <https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Separate-Debug-Files.html> (search
>> for the build-ID notes and nn/nnnnnnnn.debug). This, together with a simple
>> NFS setup can get you close to a Microsoft-style symbol store.
>>
>> This blog post
>> <https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/symbols-on-linux-part-three-linux-versus-windows/>might
>> be relevant too.
>>
>> As Adrian hints, there's an interest in adding first class support for
>> symbol servers to LLDB.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 9:02 AM Adrian McCarthy via lldb-dev <
>> lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Not currently (at least, not for the platforms I use primarily), but
>>> there is definitely interest in a symbol fetcher so there may be somebody
>>> working on it.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 24, 2019 at 11:11 PM Murali Venu Thyagarajan via lldb-dev <
>>> lldb-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to setup a symbol server for lldb just like how I could
>>>> setup a centralized and indexed symbol server for Windbg. Please let me
>>>> know.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Murali
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