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Если вы входите в «Nested», то IDE позволяет вам проверять переменные из обоих стековых фреймов.
  
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This is you can inspect: I, OuterVarInScope, NumText (without having to change the current stack frame, in the stack window)
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Это вы можете проверить: I, OuterVarInScope, NumText (без необходимости изменять текущий фрейм стека, в окне стека)
  
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However there are some caveats:
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You can also inspect: OuterVarOutsideScope. That is against Pascal scoping rules.
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This only matters if you have several nested levels, and they all contain a variable of the same name, but the Pascal scoping would hide the variable from the middle frame. Then you get to see the wrong value.
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Это имеет значение, только если у вас есть несколько вложенных уровней, и все они содержат переменную с тем же именем, но область видимости Паскаля скрыла бы переменную из среднего фрейма. Тогда вы увидите неправильное значение.
  
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You can not evaluate statements across the 2 frames: "OuterVarnScope-I" does not work.
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You may see a wrong value. If there is in any other unit a global (or otherwise visible to GDB scoping rules) variable, with the same name as the local var from the outer frame, then that global var will be shown. There is no warning for that.  
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Вступление

Lazarus поставляется с GDB в качестве отладчика по умолчанию. Начиная с Lazarus 2.0, это значение по умолчанию изменилось на LLDB на MacO.

  • Эта страница для Lazarus 1.0 и новее. Для более старых версий см. предыдущая версия этой страницы
  • Примечание по GDB 7.5: GDB 7.5 не поддерживается выпущенной версией 1.0. Исправления для поддержки были сделаны в 1.1.

См.также

Установка (GDB и LLDB)

Чтобы получить наилучшие результаты, вы должны убедиться, что ваша IDE и Project правильно настроены.

См. раздел установка отладчика, чтобы настроить IDE и ваш проект для использования отладчика.

Setup Video Tutorial

Другое

Debugging console applications

Основное

Тип отладочной информации (GDB и LLDB)

Light bulb  Примечание: Эти настройки применяются только к проекту или пакету, для которого они установлены. Если вы изменяете настройки в любом из параметров проекта или пакета, следует убедиться, что это сделано для всех пакетов и проекта.
В противном случае ваш проект будет иметь смешанную информацию отладки, что может привести к ухудшению процесса отладки.

Настройки могут быть применены к проекту или пакетам с использованием Additions and Overrides
Light bulb  Примечание: При компиляции 32-битных приложений (нативных или кросс) FPC по умолчанию имеет значение "Stabs" (по крайней мере, в некоторых ОС). Рекомендуется изменить вашу конфигурацию на "Dwarf".

Для 64-битных приложений FPC поддерживает только "Dwarf". (Старые FPC также поддерживают "Stabs", но это не рекомендуется)


Stabs (только GDB)

-g или -gs

Вы должны использовать только если ваша версия GDB не поддерживает [режим] dwarf. Есть очень мало других случаев, когда вам это нужно.

Вам может понадобиться это [в случае использования] «var param» (param by ref): procedure foo(var a: integer); Однако IDE имеет дело с этим в 99% всех случаев.

Отладчик на основе LLDB не поддерживает [режим] Stabs

Dwarf (GDB и LLDB)

Dwarf 2 (-gw)

Это устанавливает формат в Dwarf2. Это самая основная настройка dwarf.

Dwarf 2 с наборами (-gw -godwarfsets)

Этот параметр добавляет возможность проверки наборов: "type TFoo=set of (a,b,c);". Это заимствовано из спецификаций Dwarf 3, но поддерживается большинством версий GDB (любой GDB начиная с версии 7 и выше должен это делать).  Это рекомендуемая настройка.

Dwarf 3 (-gw3)

Dwarf 3 может кодировать дополнительную информацию для некоторых типов (таких как строки и массивы). Это также сохраняет регистр идентификаторов в отладочной информации.

Однако все еще есть проблемы с произведенной отладочной информацией. Некоторая информация может быть неправильно закодирована, а другая не понята GDB. В некоторых случаях это может привести к падению gdb. Этот параметр можно использовать при использовании отладчика на основе FpDebug (добавить пакет для IDE)


Различия

Этот список никоим образом не полон:

  • dwarf допускает некоторые свойства (те, которые непосредственно сопоставлены с полем)
  • stabs (и современный gdb) может делать -gp (сохранить регистр символов вместо того, чтобы получать все заглавные буквы).
  • stabs имеет проблемы с некоторыми типами классов. IDE исправляет это в некоторых случаях. (Влияет только на GDB 7.0 и выше) [1]

Проверка типов данных (Watch/Hint)

Строки

GDB не знает тип данных строк Паскаля. Информация о типе, которую возвращает GDB, в настоящее время не позволяет IDE различать PChar (индекс равен 0) и строку (индекс равен 1).

В результате "mystring[10]" может быть 10-ым символом в строке или 11-м в PChar

Поскольку среда IDE не может быть уверена, какая из них применима, она покажет оба варианта. 2 результата будут иметь префикс String/PChar.

Свойства

В настоящее время отладчик не поддерживает выполнение каких-либо методов. Поэтому могут быть проверены только те свойства, которые относятся непосредственно к переменной. (Это работает только при использовании dwarf). 

TFoo = Class
private
  FBar: Integer;
  function GetValue: Integer;
public
  property Bar: Integer read FBar;        // Может быть проверено (если используется Dwarf)
  property Value: Integer read GetValue;  // *Не* может быть проверен
end;

Вложенные процедуры / функции

 
procedure SomeObject.Outer(NumText: string);
var 
  OuterVarInScope: Integer;

procedure Nested;
var 
  I: Integer;
begin
  WriteLn(OuterVarInScope);  
end;

var 
  OuterVarOutsideScope: Integer;

begin
  Nested;
end;

Если вы входите в «Nested», то IDE позволяет вам проверять переменные из обоих стековых фреймов.

Это вы можете проверить: I, OuterVarInScope, NumText (без необходимости изменять текущий фрейм стека, в окне стека)

Однако есть несколько оговорок:

Вы также можете проверить: OuterVarOutsideScope. Это против правил определения границ Паскаля. Это имеет значение, только если у вас есть несколько вложенных уровней, и все они содержат переменную с тем же именем, но область видимости Паскаля скрыла бы переменную из среднего фрейма. Тогда вы увидите неправильное значение.

Вы не можете оценить операторы по 2 фреймам: «OuterVarnScope-I» не работает.

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Предупреждение: Вы можете увидеть неправильное значение. Если в любом другом модуле есть глобальная (или иным образом видимая для правил области действия GDB) переменная с тем же именем, что и локальная переменная из внешнего фрейма, будет показана эта глобальная переменная. Там нет никакого предупреждения для этого. Безопасным способом является явный выбор внешнего стекового фрейма, в котором определен локальный var, и проверка значения.


Arrays

 
array [x..y] of Integer;

shows as chars, instead of int. Only gdb 7.2 or up seems to handle it correctly.

Additionally there may be issues when using arrays of (unnamed) records.

Dynamic Arrays will only show a limited amount of their data. As of Lazarus 1.1 the limit can be specified.

If Watches/Hint values are not displaying correctly disable REGVARS. Set -OoNOREGVAR in "Custom Options".

Specifying GDB disassembly flavor

GDB allows one to specify the assembly flavor (intel or AT&T style) to be used when displaying assembly code. If one wants to change to a specific flavor this can be changed in the AssemblerStyle property in Lazarus's debugger options for GDB (feature available from Lazarus 2.0). Alternatively (and the only way to achieve this from inside Lazarus in older versions before Lazarus 2.0) one can specify this option by passing the set disassembly-flavor instruction to Debugger_Startup_options. Several syntax variations can be used (depending on GDB version), a few variations are shown below: 

-ex "set disassembly-flavor intel"
--eval-command="set disassembly-flavor intel"
-eval-command="set disassembly-flavor intel"
--eval-command "set disassembly-flavor intel"

Note that it may be necessary to reset the debugger (Run | Reset Debugger) before GDB will load with the new setting.

Windows

Console output for GUI application

On Windows, the IDE does not have the "Debugger - Console output" window. This is because console applications open their own console window. GUI applications by default have no console. In order to have a console for a GUI application, the compiler settings must be changed (Project options / Compiler Options / Config and Target / Win32 Gui Application: -WC / -WG)

Debugging applications with Administrative privileges

On Windows Vista+, in Project Options setting the manifest file permissions for the program to "as Administrator" will run the program with Administrator privileges. If your IDE is not running as Administrator, debugging will appear to start ok, the program will show in the tasklist, but its GUI will not show.

So please be aware that you have to match privilege level between the IDE (and gdb) and the applicationt to be debugged.

Win 64 bit

  • Requires Lazarus 1.0+ (with FPC 2.6+)
  • Advised to use dwarf

Using 32 bit Lazarus on 64 bit Windows

Alternatively it is possible to debug applications as 32 bit applications (using the 32bit version of gdb). Once successfully debugged:

  • the app can then be cross-compiled to 64 bit, or
  • a 2nd Lazarus installation can be used (using a different configuration --primary-config-path option from the 32 bit Lazarus)

When installing the 32 bit Lazarus, ensure you change configuration so the correct 32 bit FPC and GDB are used.

More Win 64 bit problems and solutions

See also http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,13188.0/topicseen.html

Win CE

Debugger does not find any source files

Menu: "Tools" Page: "Debugger"/"Generic" Field: "Additional search path"

Put your the drive letter of your project directory in this field.

Linux

Known Problems

  • There might be issues on at least some CPUs when using an old version of gdb (e.g. SPARC, with gdb 6.4 as supplied by Debian "Etch"). In particular, background threads might lock up even if the program appears to run correctly standalone.
  • If your program appears to lock up at start up, go to Tools / Options / Debugger / General and set DisableLoadSymbolsForLibraries=True

Mac OS X

Under OS X you usually install GDB with the Apple developer tools. The version of GDB available at the time of writing is 6.3.50

This section is a first approach to collect information about known issues and workarounds. The information provided here depends a lot on feedback from OS X users.

From Lazarus 2.0 onwards the IDE has an LLDB based debugger. The GDB based debugger can also be used, but requires a lot of work building and code-signing gdb.

Known Problems (GDB)

Debugging 32 bit app on 64 bit architecture

It is possible and maybe sometime necessary to debug a 32 bit exe on a 64 bit system.

This is only possible with Lazarus 0.9.29 rev 28640 and up.

TimeOuts (64 Bit only)

It appears that certain commands are not correctly (or incompletely) processed by gdb 6.3.50. Normally GDB finishes each command with a "<gdb>" prompt for the next command. But the version provided by apple sometimes fails to do this. In this case the IDE will have to use a timeout to avoid waiting forever.

This has been observed with:

  • Certain Watch expressions (at least if the watched variable was not available in the current selected function)
  • Handling an Exception
  • Inserting breakpoints (past unit end / none code location)

It can not be guaranteed:

  • that GDB will not later return some results from such a command
  • that GDB's internal state is still valid

The prompt displayed for timeouts can be switched off in the debugger config.

Warn On Timeout
True/False. Auto continue, after a timeout, do not show a warning.
TimeOutForEval
Set in milliseconds, how long until a timeout detection is triggered (the detection itself may take some more time.)

You may need to "RESET" the debugger after those changes are made

More info see here:

An alternative solution seems to be to use a newer version of GDB (see below).

Hardware exceptions under Mac OS X

When a hardware exception occurs under Mac OS X, such as an invalid pointer access (SIGSEGV) or an integer division-by-zero on Intel processors, the debugger will catch this exception at the Mach level. Normally, the system translates these Mach exceptions into Unix-style signals where the FPC run time library handles them. The debugger is however unable to propagate Mach exceptions in this way.

The practical upshot is that it is impossible under Mac OS X to continue a program in the debugger once a hardware exception has been triggered. This is not FPC-specific, and cannot be fixed by us.

Using Alternative Debuggers (GDB)

You can install GDB 7.1 (or later) using MacPorts, fink or homebrew.

The following observations have been made:

  • GDB 7.1 seems to have issues with the stabs debug info from fpc.
Make sure you select "generate dwarf debug information (-gw)" on the linking tab of the project options
Watch out for the linker warnings about "unknown stabs"
If you still have problems ensure that no code at all, is compiled with stabs. Your LCL may contain stabs, and this will end up in your app, even if you compile the app with -gw. So you may have to recompile your LCL with -gw (or without any debug info). Same for any other unit, package, rtl, .... that may have stabs

Even with those rules followed, GDB does not always work with fpc compiled apps.


Those observations may be incomplete or wrong, please update them, if you have more information.

Lazarus Version 1.0 to 1.0.12

In the debugger options configure 

EncodeCurrentDirPath = gdfeNone
EncodeExeFilename = gdfeNone

And you must use "run param" to specify the actual executable inside the app-bundle ( project.app/Content/MacOS/project or similar)

In Lazarus Version 1.0.14 to 1.2 and up those steps should no longer be required.

Xcode 5

Since OS X Mavericks 10.9, Xcode 5 no longer installs gdb by default and not globally.

  • For 10.9 you can install an old Xcode 4 in parallel. This is not supported by Apple, so it might break with one of the next versions.

Please see issue 25157 on mantis

Thread "[Lazarus] Help: OS X Problems" on

Frozen UI with GDB

To start a program from the shell you need to run "open <program1>.app", direct access to ./program1 will not give you access to the UI. To get gdb working from inside your IDE you have to specify this path as run parameter. Choose from menu Run > Run parameter and enter the full path at host application. For instance, /User/<yourid>/sources/myproject/project1.app/Content/MacOS/project1

Links

  • Mac OS X comes with a lot of useful tools for debugging and profiling. Just start /Developer/Applications/Instruments.app and try them out.

FreeBSD

The system-provided gdb is ancient (version 6.1.1 in FreeBSD 9) and does not work well with Lazarus.

You can install a newer gdb from the ports tree, e.g. 

cd /usr/ports/devel/gdb
make -DBATCH install clean

The new gdb is located in /usr/local/bin/gdb

Using a translated GDB (non-English responses from GDB)

  • This applies only to Lazarus *before* 1.2 or *before* 1.0.14.
    This is no longer needed.

The IDE expects responses in English. If GDB is translated this may affect how well the IDE can use it.

In many cases it will still work, but with limits, such as:

  • No Message or Class for exceptions
  • No live update of threads, while app is running
  • Debugger error reported, after the app is stopped (at end of debugging)
  • other ...

Please read the entire thread: [http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,20756.msg120720]

Try to run lazarus with 

 export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 lazarus

Known Problems / Errors reported by the IDE

Message     OS Description  

During startup program exited normally

  
  All

In rare cases the IDE displays the message "During startup program exited normally". This message appears when the debugged application is closed. If this happens no breakpoints in the app will have been triggered, and the app will have run as if no debugger was present.

This error can happen for various reasons. There are at least 2 known:

  • certain position independent exe (PIE) : GDB fails to relocate certain breakpoints that Lazarus uses to start the exe (this is before any user breakpoints are set)
  • certain dll/so libraries, that define the same symbols as the main exe.

There may be more. The 2nd only happens on repeated runs of the debugger.

The IDE tries to work around those, but it does not always succeed. It is likely that in cases where it currently fails, this must be worked around by user set config (see below).

Even if you can work around, please consider to send a logfile: #Log_info_for_debug_session

Ways to work around: (all on the options / debugger page)

Lazarus 1.2.2 and before
go to the debugger options and in the field "debugger_startup_options" enter:
--eval-command="set auto-solib-add off"
Lazarus 1.2.4 and higher
go to the debugger options and set the field "DisableLoadSymbolsForLibraries" to "True"

This can only be used, if you do not debug within libraries (if you have not written your own lib)

  • In Case 2 only: Check "reset debugger after each run"

It will add a very slight increase to the time it takes to start the debugger, as gdb must be reloaded each time.

  • In all cases:

Try any of the values available for "InternalStartBreak" (in the property grid of the options)

SIGFPE

  
  All

SIGFPE is a floating point unit exception.

Source: [forum thread]

SIGFPE exceptions are raised on the next FPU instruction; therefore the error line you get from Lazarus may be off/incorrect.

Delphi, and thus Freepascal, have a non standard FPEMask. A lot of C libraries don't use exceptions to check FPU problems but inspect the FPU status.

Workaround: try changing the mask with SetExceptionMask as early as possible in your program: 

uses  math;
...
 SetExceptionMask([exInvalidOp, exDenormalized, exZeroDivide, 
                   exOverflow, exUnderflow, exPrecision])

If you think there is something wrong in the FPC code, you can use the $SAFEFPUEXCEPTIONS directive. This will add a FWAIT after every store of a FPU value to memory. Most FPC float and double operations end with storing the result somewhere in memory so the outcome is that the debugger stops on the correct FPC line. FWAIT is a nop for the FPU but will cause an exception to be raised immediately instead of somewhere down your code. It is not done per default because it slows down floating point operations a lot.

Error 193 (Error creating process / Exe not found)

  
  Windows

For details see here. This issue has been observed under Win XP and appears to be caused by Windows itself. The issue occurs if the path to your app has a space, and a 2nd path/file exists, with a name identical to the part of the path before the space, e.g.:

Your app: C:\test folder\project1.exe
Some file: C:\test

SigSegV - even with new, empty application

  
  Windows
Note
In most cases SigSegV is simply an error in your code.

The following applies only, if you get a SigSegv, even with a new empty application (empty form, and no modifications made to unit1).

A SigSegV sometimes can be caused by an incompatibility between GDB and some other products. It is not known if this is a GDB issue or caused by the other product. There is no indication that any of the products listed is in any way at fault. The information provided may only apply to some versions of the named products:

Comodo firewall
http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,7065.msg60621.html#msg60621
BitDefender
enable game mode

SigSegV - and continue debugging

  
  Windows, Mac

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10004

http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,18121.msg101798.html#msg101798

On Windows Open/Save/File or System Dialog cause gdb to crash

See next entry "gdb.exe has stopped working"

Or download the "alternative GDB" 7.7.1 (Win32) from the Lazarus SourceForge site.


"Step over" steps into function (Win 64)

  
  Windows 64

Sometimes pressing F8 does not step over a function, but steps into it.

It is possible to continue with F8, and sometimes GDB will step back into the calling function, after 1 or 2 further steps (stepping over the remainder of the function).

In Lazarus 2.0 a workaround was added, but needs to be enabled. Go to Tools > Options > Debugger and enable (in the property grid) "FixIncorrectStepOver".

gdb.exe has stopped working

  
  Windows

GDB itself has crashed. This will be due to a bug in gdb, and may not be fixable in Lazarus. Still it may be worth submitting info (see section "Reporting Bugs" below). Maybe Lazarus can avoid calling the failing function.

There is one already known situation. GDB (6.6 to 7.4 (latest at the time of testing)) may crash while your app is being started, or right after your app stopped. This happen while the libraries (DLL) for your app are loaded (watch the "Debug output" window).

Lazarus 1.2.2 and before
go to the debugger options and in the field "debugger_startup_options" enter:
--eval-command="set auto-solib-add off"
Lazarus 1.2.4 and higher
go to the debugger options and set the field "DisableLoadSymbolsForLibraries" to "True"

This can only be used, if you do not debug within libraries (if you have not written your own lib) gdb start opt nolib.png

internal-error: clear_dangling_display_expressions

  
  Windows, maybe other

At the end of the debug session, the debugger reports: 

internal-error: clear_dangling_display_expressions: 
Assertion `objfile->pspace == solib->pspace' failed.

This is an error in gdb, and sometimes solved by

Lazarus 1.2.2 and before
go to the debugger options and in the field "debugger_startup_options" enter:
--eval-command="set auto-solib-add off"
Lazarus 1.2.4 and higher
go to the debugger options and set the field "DisableLoadSymbolsForLibraries" to "True"

This can only be used, if you do not debug within libraries (if you have not written your own lib)

"PC register is not available" ("SuspendThread failed. (winerr 5)")

  
  Windows

GDB may fail with this message. This is due to http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14018 If you get this issue you may want to downgrade to GDB 7.2

Can not insert breakpoint

  
  All

For breakpoints with negative numbers Please see: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,10317.msg121818.html#msg121818

You may also want to try:

Lazarus 1.2.2 and before
go to the debugger options and in the field "debugger_startup_options" enter:
--eval-command="set auto-solib-add off"
Lazarus 1.2.4 and higher
go to the debugger options and set the field "DisableLoadSymbolsForLibraries" to "True"

This can only be used, if you do not debug within libraries (if you have not written your own lib)

For breakpoints with positive numbers This may happen due to incorrect Debugger Setup. Ensure smart linking is disabled. It usually means that the breakpoint is in a procedure that is not called, and not included in your exe.

On Windows, if it happens despite correct setup, then add -Xe (external linker) to the custom options.

Reporting Bugs

Check existing Reports

Please check each of the following links

Bugs in GDB

Description OS GDB Version(s) Reference
win64 crash with bad dwarf2 symbols win64 GDB 7.4 (maybe higher) http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14014
Debuggee doesn't see environment variables set with set environment win Solved in GDB 7.4 http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10989
Win32 fails to continue with "winerr 5" (pc register not available)
*apparently* not present in 7.0 to 7.2 		win GDB 7.3 and up (maybe 6.x too)
Appears to be fixed in 7.7.1 		http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14018
Wrong array index with dwarf * GDB 7.3 to 7.5 (maybe 7.6.0)
fixed in 7.6.1 		http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15102
GDB crashes, if trying to inspect or watch resourcestrings
only tested on win32, not known for other platforms only, if using dwarf 		* GDB 7.0 to 7.2.xx
Records (especially: pointer to record) may be mistaken for classes/objects
The data/values appear to be displayed correct / further tests pending
This also affect the ability to inspect shortstring 		* GDB 7.6.1 and up (tested and failing up to GDB 8.1) https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16016
Object variables (Members) of the current methods class (self.xxx) can not be watched/inspected
To work around use upper case or prefix with self. 		* GDB 7.7 up to 7.9.0 (incl)
Workaround present in Lazarus 1.4 and up 		https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17835
gdb cannot continue after SIGFPE or SIGSEGV happen on windows win * https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10004
GDB truncates values for "const x = qword(...)" Win 64 bit
maybe others 		Fixed in GDB 7.7 and up, maybe fibed between 7.3 and 7.7

Issues with GDB 7.5.9 or 7.6

There are various reports (not confirmed) for different platforms about crashes in gdb 7.5.9 or 7.6.

It is highly recommended not to use those versions.

Create a new Report (GDB and LLDB)

If you have at any time in the past updated, changed, reinstalled your Lazarus then please check the "Options" dialog ("Environment" or "Tools" Menu) for the version of GDB and FPC used. They may still point to old settings.

Basic Information

  • Your Operating system and Version
  • Your CPU (Intel, Power, ...) 32 or 64 bit
  • Version of
    • Lazarus (Latest Release or SVN revision) (Include setting used to recompile LCL, packages or IDE (if a custom compile Lazarus is used))
    • FPC, if different from default. Please check the "Options" dialog ("Environment" or "Tools" Menu)
    • GDB, please check the "Options" dialog ("Environment" or "Tools" Menu)
  • Compiler Settings: (Menu: "Project", "Project Options", indicate all settings you used )
    • Page "Code generation"
Optimization settings (-O???): Level (-O1 / ...) Other (-OR -Ou -Os) (Please always test with all optimizations disabled, and -O1)
  • Page "Linking"
Debug Info: (-g -gl -gw) (Please ensure that at least either -g or -gw is used)
Smart Link (-XX); This must be OFF
Strip Symbols (-Xs); This must be OFF

Log info for debug session

Start Lazarus with the following options:
 --debug-log=LOG_FILE  --debug-enable=DBG_CMD_ECHO,DBG_STATE,DBG_DATA_MONITORS,DBGMI_QUEUE_DEBUG,DBGMI_TYPE_INFO,DBG_ERRORS
On Windows
you need to create a shortcut to the Lazarus exe (like the one on Desktop) and edit it's properties. Add " --debug-log=C:\laz.log --debug-enable=..." to the command line.
On Linux
start Lazarus from a shell and append " --debug-log=/home/yourname/laz.log --debug-enable=..." to the command line
On Mac/OSX
start Lazarus from a shell /path/to/lazarus/lazarus.app/Contents/MacOS/lazarus --debug-log=/path/to/yourfiles/laz.log --debug-enable=...

Attach the log file after reproducing the error.


If you can not generate a log file, you may try to open the "Debug output" window (from menu "View" -> "Ide Internals").You must open this before you run your app (F9). And then run your app. Once the error occurs, copy, zip, and attach the content of the "debug output" window.

Running the test-case

If you run a different version of GDB you may want to run the test case. Please note, that not all tests have yet the correct expectations for each possible setup. Therefore some tests may fail on some systems.

The debugger test are in the directory:

  • Lazarus 1.2.x: debugger\test\Gdbmi\
  • Lazarus 1.3 and up: components\lazdebuggergdbmi\test\

In the below the 1.3 path is used. If using 1.2.x substitute as appropriate.


One time setup

Create directory components\lazdebuggergdbmi\test\Logs: Optional, but helps keeping test result in one place

Create config files: in components\lazdebuggergdbmi\test\

copy fpclist.txt.sample to fpclist.txt
copy gdblist.txt.sample to gdblist.txt

open the 2 txt files and edit the path to fpc/gdb, also edit the version (the test may run different test, for different versions). It is possible to specify more than one gdb/fpc


Running the test
  • Open project: components\lazdebuggergdbmi\test\TestGdbmi.lpi
  • Lazarus 1.2.x only: Rebuild the IDE wit option "Clean" (Menu Tools: "Configure build IDE" / Restart is not needed). If this is skipped, compilation of the project may fail. Once compilation failed, ALL *.ppu/*.o files in debugger\test must be deleted by hand.
  • Run the project (If a test failed, you may have to delete *.exe files in components\lazdebuggergdbmi\test\TestApps

Links

External Links

Experimental Debuggers in pascal

Those are work in progress:

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