[LLVMdev] eclipse and gdb

[Reed Kotler]

I made wiki pages on this.

https://dmz-portal.mips.com/wiki/Building_with_Cmake_to_create_an_Eclipse_Project

https://dmz-portal.mips.com/wiki/Importing_the_Project_into_Eclipse


On 07/16/2013 02:10 PM, Reed Kotler wrote:
> On 07/16/2013 05:21 AM, Tilmann Scheller wrote:
>> Hi Reed,
>>
>> I’ve used Eclipse for a long time to do LLVM development on Linux
>> (both for code navigation/editing and debugging), any recent Linux
>> distribution and version of Eclipse should be fine (even older
>> versions should be good enough as this has been working for many years).
>>
>> Xcode works fine as well, I started to use Xcode exclusively when I
>> switched to OS X.
>>
>> The key to make this work is to use CMake to generate project files
>> for Eclipse/Xcode, you can do this by specifying the appropriate
>> generator on the command line e.g. -G Xcode or -G "Eclipse CDT4 - Unix
>> Makefiles”. Then you can just open the generated project file. Mind
>> you, the generated projects are kind of ugly e.g. the Xcode project
>> has like more than 200 targets but apart from that they are working fine.
>>
>> In terms of key bindings both Eclipse and Xcode ship with Emacs key
>> bindings and there are plugins which allow you to use vim key bindings
>> as well. With Eclipse I’ve been using the Viable plugin for that and
>> for Xcode there is Xvim.
>>
>> Hope this helps :)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tilmann
>>
>
> The source browsing is way better this way.
>
> This following pointer may be useful to others to complete the importing
> of the project.
>
> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/Eclipse_CDT4_Generator
>
> How are you setting up the debugger?
>
> For example, if you want to run from clang but debug the back end code
> generation ?
>
> Which process launcher?
>
> Protocol == mi?
>
> BTW: do you do builds inside of eclipse.
> Seems to be kind of slow.
>
> Tia.
>
> Reed
>
>> On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:05 PM, reed kotler <rkotler at mips.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is anyone using Eclipse and gdb to debug llvm/clang?
>>> If so, which version of Eclipse, gdb and linux flavor.
>>>
>>> I just use gdb currently.
>>>
>>> I'm going to try using my mac also.
>>> Is anyone using xcode/lldb to debug llvm/clang?
>>>
>>> Tia.
>>>
>>> Reed
>>>
>>>
>>>
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