Re: Problem Debugging GNU Make Projects
Re: Problem Debugging GNU Make Projects
- Subject: Re: Problem Debugging GNU Make Projects
- From: Tony Cebzanov <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:36:49 -0500
Well, since I posted this last week, I've had two list members tell me
they're in the same boat. This, to me, says two things:
1. There's no solution, or if there is, it's not widely known.
and
2. Use of XCode for GNU Make projects isn't just a niche market, so
there is definitely demand for debugging them properly in XCode.
With that in mind, I submitted a bug report to Apple, but to be honest,
my hopes aren't high that it'll get addressed anytime soon. So, does
anyone else out there have a workaround where they've been able to
debug, step into, set breakpoints, etc. in multi-level GNU Make projects?
Thanks.
-Tony
Tony Cebzanov wrote:
I am trying to use Xcode as an editor/debugger for a project which needs
to run on a lot of platforms. This means use of automake, autoconf, and
libtool for the builds, and use of the GNU Make project type, with an
external build target.
Setting the project up, editing files, etc. was easy, but when I got
compile warnings/errors, double-clicking on them was not bringing up the
offending source files, even though they had been added to the project.
After some hard thinking, it occurred to me that Xcode might not be
looking for them in the right subdirectory of the project, which has
different subdirectories for different parts of the library.
Sure enough, when I created a "flat" project with only one directory,
Xcode was able to bring up source files when there were compile
warnings/errors.
So, I'm left wondering if there's any way to find debugging happiness in
this environment. Creating separate, flat Xcode projects with a single
directory each isn't feasible, because there are so many directories,
and managing dependencies between projects would be a nightmare. What
I'm hoping is that there's some setting, feature, or trick to getting
Xcode to be able to know what subdirectory it's in, so that when an
external target is building in a subdirectory, it can bring up the
relevant source file.
Whew. That's certainly a mouthful, I hope I asked my question clearly.
So, is it doable?
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