[SOLVED] gdb not found after 2.2.0 install on macOS Monterey (amd64)

[willbprog9933]

Hi everyone, 

After a long hiatus from Lazarus and Free Pascal, I decided to install Lazarus 2.2.0 today.  After I uninstalled everything using the instructions from the wiki, I installed fpc, fpc-source and then Lazarus on my Intel Mac running Monterey (12.3).  When I start the IDE, the 'Welcome to Lazarus 2.2.0' window displays and there's a red exclamation point next to 'Debugger', with it saying 'Error: file not found' on the 'Debugger' tab.

From what I remember, on Linux and Windows, it seems like gdb is part of the official fpc/Lazarus install.  Is it not installed on macOS?

Thanks! 

[dbannon]

I suspect gdb is still there but you definitely should use lldb, see

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_macOS#Step_5:_Configure_the_Debugger

Davo

[willbprog9933]

I suspect gdb is still there but you definitely should use lldb, see

https://wiki.freepascal.org/Installing_Lazarus_on_macOS#Step_5:_Configure_the_Debugger

Davo

Thank you so much!  It's working now. 

I didn't see anything in the README for the macOS Lazarus installer about needing to set lldb as the debugger instead of gdb, so hopefully I can remember this next time I have to install.  I wonder why lldb isn't automatically selected on a new Lazarus install?  I purged *all* of my config files before installing, so any previous debugger choice shouldn't have been migrated.

Thanks again!