Re: iOS debugging without Xcode
Re: iOS debugging without Xcode
- Subject: Re: iOS debugging without Xcode
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2012 21:58:24 -0700
On Jul 8, 2012, at 7:22 PM, Tom Seddon wrote: Does anybody know if it's possible to debug iOS apps running on an iOS device, without using Xcode? I'm hopeful there's some way to start the app from lldb/gdb running in the terminal (or, better yet, via emacs).
As far as I know, there is no way to do this (or if there is, no one has published instructions yet.) Last year I was trying to figure out how to programmatically install and launch apps on a device, for automated QA purposes, but drew a blank.
On Jul 8, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Don Quixote de la Mancha wrote: One debugs iOS Apps with GDB. GDB is distributed under the GNU
General Public License, so *somewhere* in GDB's source is Apple's
implementation of the Mac's end of whatever protocol the iOS debugger
stub is talking.
I suspect gdb is just talking to a local debugger-host process that itself talks to the iOS device over USB via some black-box proprietary protocol. Apple is far too paranoid to give out source code that shows how to attach to a process on an iOS device. (But hey, someone please prove me wrong!)
—Jens |
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