On Jan 10, 2014, at 6:07 AM, Ziller Eike <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 9, 2014, at 6:05 PM, Kuba Ober <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I’m trying to figure out the most constructive way of ensuring that an OS X >> build of Qt, installed with the source code, can be actually debugged by >> stepping into the C++ source code in the Qt library. So far I can only step >> into disassembly. This doesn't work out of the box on a fresh install of Qt >> 5.2, and it really has never worked with Qt 5 builds. I never got it working >> for a Qt 4 build either. […] > > Please see my comment on QTBUG-28496: > > basically to solve this completely, including debugging into Qt code, we need > to > • make sure we package the debugging symbols (dsymutil, or maybe > there's a compiler flag that does that during link-time?) > • think about if the debugging symbols should be in a separate > component, it will make the package significantly larger I guess (like Qt > libraries 4.8.4 for Mac (185 MB) and debug libraries (480 MB)) > • make it actually find the Qt sources. I've no clue at the moment how > to achieve that with apple's gdb, or if we can patch the debug info in the > dsym at install time > </quote> Eike, this is very helpful! So far I’ve simply rebuilt Qt locally and are using that for debugging. Is the build script used to build a Qt distribution package available, and if so, where? Thanks, Kuba Ober _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
