Re: [cmake-developers] Request for Comments: Will implementing an interactive CMake debugger be welcome?
Hi Matt, On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 17:06:11 -0700 Matt McCormick matt.mccorm...@kitware.com wrote: Hi Shlomi, I also think this would be a great feature. I started on an implementation here: https://github.com/thewtex/cmakedbg but I have not had time to follow it through. The user interface is written in Python/Cython for fast prototyping purposes, but it could be written all C/C++ if you would like. I believe I got to the point where it was possible to set a breakpoint. I was building against this branch: https://github.com/thewtex/CMake/tree/cmakedbg Great! Thanks for the link. I'll check it out. Overall, I think the approach is fairly solid. When CMake processes a line, it asks a debugger if it is interested. For there, the debugger can pause if a breakpoint is set at that point, let the user print the content of current variables that are defined, ... Since it uses CMake for processing all the code, the debugger will behave exactly the same as a cmake executable. Feel free to take the project and run with it. I'll try to - thanks. Regards, Shlomi Fish Matt -- - Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ Sisko: Q: would it be OK if my crew brought along their phasers with them? Q: Of course. They can also bring some photon torpedoes if they wish. None of them will work, but I don’t mind them taking them. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
Re: [cmake-developers] Request for Comments: Will implementing an interactive CMake debugger be welcome?
Hi Shlomi, I also think this would be a great feature. I started on an implementation here: https://github.com/thewtex/cmakedbg but I have not had time to follow it through. The user interface is written in Python/Cython for fast prototyping purposes, but it could be written all C/C++ if you would like. I believe I got to the point where it was possible to set a breakpoint. I was building against this branch: https://github.com/thewtex/CMake/tree/cmakedbg Overall, I think the approach is fairly solid. When CMake processes a line, it asks a debugger if it is interested. For there, the debugger can pause if a breakpoint is set at that point, let the user print the content of current variables that are defined, ... Since it uses CMake for processing all the code, the debugger will behave exactly the same as a cmake executable. Feel free to take the project and run with it. Matt On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all, following a discussion we had on ##llvm on irc.oftc.net (the main LLVM channel, because LLVM+clang can be built using CMake), I've been wondering if you would like someone (like me) to implement an interactive debugger (or debugging mode) for cmake invocations, similar to gdb, perl -d, pdb.py, etc.? I saw this thread: http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2009-July/030728.html Where it was recommended to use cmake --trace, and I've been using MESSAGE ( ... ) and MESSAGE (FATAL_ERROR ...) for most of my debugging, but I'm interested in something better. I can try working on it given the time and motivation (in a separate git branch on a GitHub/Bitbucket repository), but I want to get a green light for it, because once introduced, it naturally should be supported in the future (and if I'm going to write it, I am willing to help support it). Hi there, I'm sure such an addition would be welcome, but it would be a lot of work. Before writing such a feature, do you have enough familiarity with the cmake codebase already to describe how much work it would be? Thanks, Steve. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
Re: [cmake-developers] Request for Comments: Will implementing an interactive CMake debugger be welcome?
Shlomi Fish wrote: Hi all, following a discussion we had on ##llvm on irc.oftc.net (the main LLVM channel, because LLVM+clang can be built using CMake), I've been wondering if you would like someone (like me) to implement an interactive debugger (or debugging mode) for cmake invocations, similar to gdb, perl -d, pdb.py, etc.? I saw this thread: http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2009-July/030728.html Where it was recommended to use cmake --trace, and I've been using MESSAGE ( ... ) and MESSAGE (FATAL_ERROR ...) for most of my debugging, but I'm interested in something better. I can try working on it given the time and motivation (in a separate git branch on a GitHub/Bitbucket repository), but I want to get a green light for it, because once introduced, it naturally should be supported in the future (and if I'm going to write it, I am willing to help support it). Hi there, I'm sure such an addition would be welcome, but it would be a lot of work. Before writing such a feature, do you have enough familiarity with the cmake codebase already to describe how much work it would be? Thanks, Steve. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
