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roboscala / sbt-robovm

An sbt plugin for iOS development in Scala
BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" License
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Try out the debugger and document if working #40

Closed ajhager closed 9 years ago

ajhager commented 9 years ago

The debugger seems to work great!

It would be nice if I could do something like sbt hello/debug:iphoneSim or somesuch to automatically set robovmDebug from the command line. It would also be handy to have a jdb task that uses robovmDebugPort and what it knows about the project's sources paths to run jdb -attach robovmDebugPort -sourcepath srcPath, e.g. sbt hello/jdb.

I will also add a setting for robovmDebugClientMode.

I am still getting caught up on sbt, so I welcome any thoughts (cc @Darkyenus @pocorall ).

Darkyenus commented 9 years ago

I haven't used jdb, I have always debugged through an IDE, so if that works, that is probably enough, but that is my opinion, jdb may be more common than I think. debug:iphoneSim would be great and probably easiest, but I don't have deep enough understanding of sbt in these parts to be able to say for sure that it is possible. What is debug client mode and how is it different?

ajhager commented 9 years ago

I am not sure how common using jdb is, but it is used in ensime for debugger support. I still need to test and make sure that works correctly with robovm, as well as test in IntelliJ.

RoboVM's debugger has a client mode where you can already have a debugger session started and have your debug app connect to that, in effect acting like the client instead of server. I was looking for a way to have execution stop at the start of the application so I can setup breakpoints in constructors. I think that will help with that.

ajhager commented 9 years ago

It looks like with an InputTask, running any configuration in debug mode could be as simple as sbt iphoneSim debug 5678 with or without the port at the end. I'll try that out after work tonight.

Darkyenus commented 9 years ago

Ah, that client mode is clever, I didn't know that is possible, I have always used "suspend=y" flag. That input task idea is good, but I think that doing it through debug: configuration would be more SBT-like.

Darkyenus commented 9 years ago

I'm looking into this and it looks like implementation of both ways will be the same, maybe a bit clearer with configuration, because there will be no parsing to do. I'll try to implement it.

ajhager commented 9 years ago

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