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rohanrhu / gdb-frontend

☕ GDBFrontend is an easy, flexible and extensible gui debugger. Try it on https://debugme.dev
https://oguzhaneroglu.com/projects/gdb-frontend/
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OSX support #19

Closed mark2185 closed 3 years ago

mark2185 commented 3 years ago

Any chance we might get a mac + lldb version?

I tried modifying it and solving the issues, but ultimately stopped because lldb doesn't support the -ex flag and I thought you might have a better idea on how to circumvent that.

rohanrhu commented 3 years ago

Hi,

LLDB is a different debugger. Do you have the requirements: Python3, GDB with Python3 and Tmux?

What errors are you getting? You can access GDB shell after running GDBFrontend, with this command: tmux a -t gdb-frontend. Do you see any error in there?

mark2185 commented 3 years ago

Well, I tried:

Since that didn't get me anywhere, I tried installing gdb, but then it stops about a second after starting, I added a sleep after the message Open this address..., attached to the tmux and it looks like ordinary gdb ~so I don't know what might be the issue~, it turns out it cannot import gdb-frontend since config doesn't initialize as expected, it says PLUGINS_DIR doesn't exist when importing.

Looks like adding config.init() after the import config in gdbfrontend.py helps. But now it says it cannot import module gdb on line 33 since it doesn't exist.

Back to the lldb experiment, for example line 284 fails since lldb doesn't support the -ex flag. Then I tried starting the program with -p 0 so it skips that line ( by using a random port ), but on line 331 it requires the same logic, and that's necessary for the gdbfrontend to load and run, and lldb doesn't support it. All I can manage to do is see my terminal in the browser.

So I thought you might have a better idea how to solve that. Installing gdb feels like fighting the OS since I'd have to generate and sign certificates and whatnot, it would be easier to make it work with lldb.

If you don't have a mac available, I'll try diving into the code and see what can be changed.

rohanrhu commented 3 years ago

I thought your GDB has no Python3. I found this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48962558/installing-gdb-with-python-3-on-mac-with-homebrew

LLDB is a different debugger. I have not used that before and dont know about is it a GDB fork or GDB-compatible debugger. So you can check your GDB for is it including embbedded-Python3.

rohanrhu commented 3 years ago

What about this issue?

mark2185 commented 3 years ago

We can close it. I'd rather not install gdb on mac, but I will try this debugger out on linux!

Thanks for your efforts!