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<h1 class ="postheader">Building LLDB on Mac OS X</h1> | |
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<p>Building on Mac OS X is as easy as downloading the code and building the Xcode project or workspace:</p> | |
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<h2>Preliminaries</h2> | |
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<li>XCode 4.3 or newer requires the "Command Line Tools" component (XCode->Preferences->Downloads->Components).</li> | |
<li>Mac OS X Lion or newer requires installing <a href="http://swig.org">Swig</a>.</li> | |
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<h2>Building LLDB</h2> | |
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<li><a href="download.html">Download</a> the lldb sources.</li> | |
<li>Follow the code signing instructions in <b>lldb/docs/code-signing.txt</b></li> | |
<li>In Xcode 3.x: <b>lldb/lldb.xcodeproj</b>, select the <b>lldb-tool</b> target, and build.</li> | |
<li>In Xcode 4.x: <b>lldb/lldb.xcworkspace</b>, select the <b>lldb-tool</b> scheme, and build.</li> | |
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<h1 class ="postheader">Building LLDB on Linux</h1> | |
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<p>This document describes the steps needed to compile LLDB on most Linux systems.</a></p> | |
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<h2>Preliminaries</h2> | |
<p>LLDB relies on many of the technologies developed by the larger LLVM project. | |
In particular, it requires both Clang and LLVM itself in order to build. Due to | |
this tight integration the <em>Getting Started</em> guides for both of these projects | |
come as prerequisite reading:</p> | |
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<li><a href="http://llvm.org/docs/GettingStarted.html">LLVM</a></li> | |
<li><a href="http://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html">Clang</a></li> | |
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<p>Supported compilers for building LLDB on Linux include:</p> | |
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<li>Clang 3.2</li> | |
<li><a href="http://gcc.gnu.org">GCC</a> 4.6.2 (later versions should work as well)</li> | |
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<p>It is recommended to use libstdc++ 4.6 (or higher) to build LLDB on Linux, but using libc++ is also known to work.</p> | |
<p>In addition to any dependencies required by LLVM and Clang, LLDB needs a few | |
development packages that may also need to be installed depending on your | |
system. The current list of dependencies are:</p> | |
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<li><a href="http://swig.org">Swig</a></li> | |
<li><a href="http://www.thrysoee.dk/editline">libedit</a></li> | |
<li><a href="http://www.python.org">Python</a></li> | |
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<p>So for example, on a Fedora system one might run:</p> | |
<code>> yum install swig python-devel libedit-devel</code> | |
<p>On an Ubuntu system one might run:</p> | |
<code>> sudo apt-get install swig python-dev libedit-dev </code> | |
<h2 >Building LLDB</h2> | |
<p>We first need to checkout the source trees into the appropriate locations. Both | |
Clang and LLDB build as subprojects of LLVM. This means we will be checking out | |
the source for both Clang and LLDB into the <tt>tools</tt> subdirectory of LLVM. We | |
will be setting up a directory hierarchy looking something like this:</p> | |
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llvm | |
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`-- tools | |
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+-- clang | |
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`-- lldb | |
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<p>For reference, we will call the root of the LLVM project tree <tt>$llvm</tt>, and the | |
roots of the Clang and LLDB source trees <tt>$clang</tt> and <tt>$lldb</tt> respectively.</p> | |
<p>Change to the directory where you want to do development work and checkout LLVM:</p> | |
<code>> svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk llvm</code> | |
<p>Now switch to LLVM’s tools subdirectory and checkout both Clang and LLDB:</p> | |
<code>> cd $llvm/tools | |
<br>> svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk clang | |
<br>> svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/lldb/trunk lldb | |
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<p>In general, building the LLDB trunk revision requires trunk revisions of both | |
LLVM and Clang. | |
<p>It is highly recommended that you build the system out of tree. Create a second | |
build directory and configure the LLVM project tree to your specifications as | |
outlined in LLVM’s <em>Getting Started Guide</em>. A typical build procedure | |
might be:</p> | |
<code>> cd $llvm/.. | |
<br>> mkdir build | |
<br>> cd build | |
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<p>If you are using clang:</p> | |
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<br>> $llvm/configure --enable-cxx11 | |
<br>> make </code> | |
<p>If you are using GCC 4.6+:</p> | |
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<br>> $llvm/configure | |
<br>> make CXXFLAGS=-std=c++0x</code> | |
<p>Note that once both LLVM and Clang have been configured and built it is not | |
necessary to perform a top-level <tt>make</tt> to rebuild changes made only to LLDB. | |
You can run <tt>make</tt> from the <tt>build/tools/lldb</tt> subdirectory as well.</p> | |
<p> If you wish to build with libc++ instead of libstdc++ (the default), you should run configure with the | |
<tt>--enable-libcpp</tt> flag.</p> | |
<p> If you wish to build a release version of LLDB, run configure with the <tt>--enable-optimized</tt> flag.</p> | |
<h2>Additional Notes</h2> | |
<p>LLDB has a Python scripting capability and supplies its own Python module named <tt>lldb</tt>. | |
If a script is run inside the command line <tt>lldb</tt> application, the Python module | |
is made available automatically. However, if a script is to be run by a Python interpreter | |
outside the command line application, the <tt>PYTHONPATH</tt> environment variable can be used | |
to let the Python interpreter find the <tt>lldb</tt> module. | |
<p>The correct path can be obtained by invoking the command line <tt>lldb</tt> tool with the -P flag:</p> | |
<code>> export PYTHONPATH=`$llvm/build/Debug+Asserts/bin/lldb -P`</code> | |
<p>If you used a different build directory or made a release build, you may need to adjust the | |
above to suit your needs. To test that the lldb Python module | |
is built correctly and is available to the default Python interpreter, run:</p> | |
<code>> python -c 'import lldb'</code></p> | |
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