On 1 Sep 2017, at 02:22, Gregory Casamento <greg.casame...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not sure that lldb works all that well with ObjC on non-darwin operating > systems at this point.
I’ve had a look at the code, and it doesn’t look like it would be too complicated to add. There are three parts: - Objective-C introspection - Objective-C code execution - GNUstep support The core Objective-C part is quite abstracted (Apple uses lldb with two very different Objective-C runtime implementations, so that’s not entirely surprising). I’m not sure I’ll have time to work on it soon, but providing a new ObjCLanguageRuntime subclass that pokes the GNUstep runtime for status should be relatively easy. The next part requires constructing Clang Objective-C AST nodes based on information in the runtime. This is not difficult, but it’s quite a bit bigger. The final bit is a bit harder. LLDB includes a load of stuff for pretty-printing various Cocoa types. This isn’t currently abstracted into platform-specific versions, because Apple only has one implementation of this. We’d need to add some abstraction there. It’s probably not too difficult, because the code is all in a plugin, so we could just load a GNUstep plugin instead of the Apple one. David _______________________________________________ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev
