Lazarus
Using the Lazarus IDE => Debugger => Topic started by: Martin_fr on October 13, 2019, 05:59:40 pm
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It is time to get some feedback on how FpDebug behaves in the wild.
If you want to test it, you need:
- Lazarus 2.1 revision 62049 (dated 13 Oct 2019) or higher/later
- Fpc any version that above Lazarus works with.
If you use FPC trunk, you should aim for revision 43183 or higher.
earlier trunk will cause bad results inspecting bitpacked arrays
3.0.4 is fine
3.2 may depend on what gets merged when, and FpDebug may need amendments if certain fpc fixes are merged.
As for what to expect: https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/FpDebug
It is recommended to test this with DWARF-3
However DWARF-2 is also supported. Please mention which one you tested.
When reporting back:
- Your Lazarus and FPC version/revision.
- Your OS (with version and 32 or 64 bit)
- Your IDE is 32 or 64 bit
- Your FPC is 32 or 64 bit
- Your target app is 32 or 64 bit (and indicate if it was cross compiled, by an FPC with different bitness)
- In case something failed, log output of (or preferably, a reproducible testcase)
lazarus.exe --debug-log=file --log-enable=DBG_STATE,DBG_DATA_MONITORS,DBG_ERRORS,DBG_VERBOSE,DBG_WARNINGS,DBG_BREAKPOINTS,DBG_FPDEBUG_VERBOSE,FPDBG_BREAKPOINT_ERRORS,FPDBG_BREAKPOINTS
Thank you
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Will do for 3.2 and trunk.
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I'll start using it on Linux 64 with FPC 3.0.4 and trunk.
Are there any plans to expand FpDebug to support remote debugging (gdb remote serial protocol) of AVR? I guess the key additions would be a remote communication layer and an AVR disassembler.
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Are there any plans to expand FpDebug to support remote debugging (gdb remote serial protocol) of AVR? I guess the key additions would be a remote communication layer and an AVR disassembler.
No, no plans for gdb protocol.
Other CPU... Probably depend on contribution.
A FpDebug Server (for remote debugging to platform on which fpdebug runs....) will probably come. There already is some code that was started ages ago. But then the FpDebug Server must run on the target.
Also this will be a while... Plenty of other stuff before.
Same for a command line interface. Some prove of concept code exists, but may need to be fixed to be able to compile.
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About gdb...
There is LazDebuggerFpGDBMI.
Which is gdb, but watches and locals are done by fpdebug (using gdb to read the memory).
Since the fpdebug engine (and all the dwarf for watches) is a package of its own, anyone who wants can start a debugger that implements the gdb protocol and uses the fpdebug classes to handle dwarf.
Or translate LazDebuggerFpGDBMI to use gdbserver.
That should be easy, since it just needs to insert the commands to gdb that set the remote.... (and maybe async gdb commands)
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Or translate LazDebuggerFpGDBMI to use gdbserver.
That should be easy, since it just needs to insert the commands to gdb that set the remote.... (and maybe async gdb commands)
My preference is to move away from gdb since it needs a patch (which has been around since 2016) to work properly with the separate memory spaces of avr.
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My preference is to move away from gdb since it needs a patch (which has been around since 2016) to work properly with the separate memory spaces of avr.
Moved to https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,47073.msg336382.html#msg336382
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Sorry, but I'm discovering FpDebug. So, hoping to be able to participate to its test:
- I've installed its package (components\fpdebug\fpdebug.lpk, version 0.0), in Lazarus 2.0.2 + FPC 3.0.4.
- in my project options, I use "Dwarf 3".
==> now, my stupid questions:
a) in the environment options, debugger, I must select "LLDB debugger (with fpdebug beta)" ?
b) below, do I leave "$(LazarusDir)\mingw\$(TargetCPU)-$(TargetOS)\bin\gdb.exe" ?
Thank you for the clarifications.
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On Linux / Windows
You need to install the package LazDebuggerFp
and then you find "fpdebug .... " in the list. and you do not need gdb (nor any other external exe)
Note that in 2.0.x you can use it, but it has known bugs. And is slower. Testing should be done with Lazarus trunk
On Mac, the standalone fp debug does not work, but you can install LazdebuggerFPlldb, and then change from gdb to lldb
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Thank you.
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Not so detailed test but it works pretty good (and much faster than gdb).
One small problem: when program finished there's no dialog "Execution stopped" like it popup when stop program with gdb as debugger.
EDIT: Fedora 29, 64bit, fpc-3.0.4 + lazarus trunk r62073
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One small problem: when program finished there's no dialog "Execution stopped" like it popup when stop program with gdb as debugger.
I just tested (on windows though) and the dialog appears.
Have you checked in the Tools > Options > Debugger > General, that the checkbox is set? (this is not part of the backend config)
EDIT:
On Fedora 28 it works too
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I put together a feature/status list (according to memory):
https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Debugger_Status