No Debugger Setup for Mac OS X

KeithS

You have to not only download them but install them also.

'ls -l /usr/bin/gdb' to see if it is installed.

I gather that in Qt Creator 3.0 lldb will be supported....

Seanknex

usr/bin/gdb is not installed. How do I go about installing the XCode command line tools in qt. Sorry, I'm new at Qt.

Here are some pictures of what I am seeing.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4ZBg2H33Su2d1hBaVhmLTdWdWc/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4ZBg2H33Su2ZFMyeEtmY3pKMnM/edit?usp=sharing

KeithS

Open XCode, then XCode->Preferences and check you have command line tools installed, else install.

Seanknex

XCode shows that I have the command line tools installed. Yet when I go and look at /usr/bin/ and gdb doesn't exist.

I found /usr/bin/lldb, created a clone of an existing qt kit in Qt preferences and set the debugger to the LLDB engine and selected this executable. I restarted Qt and created a new project using this kit, yet it still says that there is no debugger set up.

eric_vi

I am in front of the same issue OS X.8, XCode 5, the command line tools shown to be installed and using QT 5.1 ...

i compiled my project fine and can run, but when trying in debug mode ... got no debugger setup

not sure what i can do... thank you for your help

JPritchard

Did anyone ever resolve this ? I am having the exact same issue, and without the ability to debug, I am dead in the water right now.

Any help would be appreciated.

eric_vi

i was able to solved it... by setting in Preferences/buildRun Kits tab the debugger to /usr/bin/lldb

JPritchard

Thanks, for responding.

I tried that, and it looked promising.

But when I try to debug (one of the examples) I get a message saying:

'the gdb process terminated unexpectedly (code 0)"

glasspusher

I don't even get that far. I have lldb installed, just installed the dev tools for mavericks, no gdb, though. Still get the "No debugger set up" dialog. Did a clean on the projects, restart computer, can use lldb from the command line, but not from Qt. Any ideas appreciated.

JPritchard

Disclaimer: I've been trying to use Qt for only about a week, so I'm not a Qt expert or anything.

I'm still running Mountain Lion, but I've installed Qt 5.2 (beta) which comes with Qt Creator 3.0, and there seems to be better lldb support. I can run and debug, although I'm not sure about the limitations of debugging using lldb because I'm still very new to Qt as a whole. I normally wouldn't run a beta being this new to something, but it's the only option available that I can debug with.

However, I did install XCode 5, and from its options the 'Command Line Tools' before installing 5.2, though.

Just be wary of the tutorials because the designer doesn't work for some of them that I tried because they use QtQuick 2 components and there is no support for QtQuick 2 in the Design mode, so you're going to be stuck with editing QML through the editor. It has something to do with the way qml2puppet (required for Designer) was packaged with the Mac OSX distribution incorrectly.

If anyone can help on that issue, I would appreciate it. A Lot.

I am intrigued by Qt, and I hope I get a better understanding because it seems like a very powerful tool. However, it does take a little bit of head banging to get the environment set up. Like I said, I'm only into it about a week so I am by no means an authority on any of this. I'm learning, just like you.

I hope that helps.

che1404

Hi all,
same problem here, with Mavericks, Qt 5.1.1. Even if I clone the Kit, and select /usr/bin/lldb as debugger, the same error shows up.

Any ideas?

che1404

It seems that LLDB will be better supported in next releases: http://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2013/11/12/qt-creator-and-lldb/

jdramer

Using Qt 5.2.1 on OS 10.8.5 I was getting the same error. To resolve it I was able to clone the clang Kit and select the lldb debugger. lldb seems to be working now.