That sounds great, just let me know when you feel the repo is in a good state and I'll take another look. My preference is github (username andrewmacp) but I'm open if you prefer something else. Talk soon!
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 5:39 PM, Virgile Bello <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, > > Sure, that would be great to combine effort! Quite happy people are > willing to join, it's quite a huge task. And your goal being little bit > different is good to have more test cases and features. > I'm quite open about how to coordinate. On my side, I think I just need a > few days to clean up and rearrange commits little bit more before starting > a proper branch, then we could start to work from that? > > Where would you prefer to work? SVN? Github? > > Actually I have never tried lldb.exe directly, I use it as a library, so I > didn't really expect it to work -- good to know process control was OK at > least! > Also, some scenarios that used to work for me 6 months ago don't work > anymore now, so that might be related as well. I'll try to fix those > regressions quickly so that your work doesn't bump into them. > > > On 18 February 2014 21:51, Andrew MacPherson <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Virgile, >> >> This looks great! We had recently started on our own Windows Process >> plugin implementation, porting code we had used in a simple custom debugger >> to LLDB, however I think it would make sense to combine our efforts. I >> would be happy to help stabilize what you have so far, I built locally from >> your repo and much of the process control works great though I haven't had >> any luck getting debug info in stack traces in a few simple apps built with >> gcc (-gdwarf-2) or with clang using lldb.exe yet. >> >> What we're aiming for is slightly different than you, we're mostly >> interested in the ability to parse ELF/Dwarf debug info from code produced >> by MCJIT since the bulk of our software currently needs to be compiled with >> MSVC. This relies on a JIT support patch (currently for Linux) which hasn't >> yet been submitted upstream, though your work here is probably the push >> required for me to get that done. >> >> I will take a pass through some samples on this end and take note of any >> issues I come across and then start looking into them. Let me know how you >> would like to coordinate work here (assuming you would like to coordinate) >> and we can go from there. >> >> Nice work! >> >> Andrew >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Virgile Bello >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> 6 months ago I worked on LLDB to add Windows process debugging support. >>> >>> I had to put this project little bit aside for a little bit. Now that I >>> have some more time to focus on that project again, I wanted to share what >>> I have been doing so far, and hopefully as it gets more mature it would be >>> great to have it merged in trunk later. >>> >>> So far I pushed most of my changes on github: >>> https://github.com/xen2/lldb/commits/msvc12 >>> >>> The most important commit is probably "Added ProcessWindows and >>> DynamicLoaderWindows plugins.". Some of the commits might be only temporary >>> (needed for debugging to work). Some others commits are trivial/minor and >>> could probably be cherry-picked immediately in trunk. >>> >>> It is far from being ready to be merged yet (unpolished commits, lot of >>> file rearrange/rename, code sharing, cleanup and comments to do here and >>> there). >>> >>> Also, at the time (might have been fixed yet), I used Linux >>> implementation as a guideline but noticed it didn't seem to work for >>> multithreading (StopInfo mixing up each other). As a result I had to change >>> some stuff to have multithreading working. That might be something that >>> could be interesting to have back on Linux as well. >>> >>> Status: I am now able to use LLDB as a library to actually debug real >>> windows processes (including stack traces, variables, multithreading, >>> etc...) on simple executables (compiled with either gcc with -gdwarf-2, or >>> clang). >>> >>> Note: I might force push the branch msvc12 on github since I want to >>> rewrite some commits and rebase. If people are interested in helping, >>> please let me know and I would stop doing that. >>> >>> Hope it will help starting the effort to have a full debugging support >>> on Windows! >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> lldb-dev mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/lldb-dev >>> >>> >> >
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