Hi folks.
I'm trying to debug an issue on a browser plugin built on OSX 10.11 with
clang/llvm
(sorry, I can't seem to get useful versions out - I just installed the
toolset from Apple).
The plugin build is adapted from a build that functions back to OSX
10.6. It uses
GNU Makefiles (not XCode). It has been adapted to clang/llvm simply by
tweaking the
base makefiles to swap tools: gcc to clang, g++ to clang++ etc. The
final shlib in this case
is presently 32-bit (to work under 32-bit browsers).
When I tried to use lldb to debug an issue, I found it had very limited
abilities. It could
show me function names/addresses, but nothing useful on variables or
arguments.
I suspect the problem is a lack of debug information in the final
shlib. I find that while
objects out of llvm have plenty of DWARF Debug info in them (-g is used
throughout the
debug build)... the final shared library has no DWARF data at all
(according to dwarfdump).
This is in spite of the -g option clearly being used in the final link
(via the clang++ front-end).
(I'm assuming lldb wants DWARF right?)
Can anyone point me at the right options to use to get functional debug
information
from clang/llvm, though to El-Capitans linker out to lldb? I'm thinking
this problem looks like
the linker in use (as far as I can tell, the old system 'ld') simply
doesn't understand the
DWARF information - or is it trying to translate DWARF to something
else? Do I need to
install/use a different linker? I'd hate to back off to gcc at this
point, but I need a
functional debugger.
Thanks in advance for any clues.
Ross.
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