Unable to debug Android App (Windows + Qt Creator 12 + LLDB)
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True.
Just wanted to update you folks that debugging latest real hardware Android devices from MacOS is impossible as well.
I ended up having the very same issues as on Windows.
Sigfaults and straight-into-assembly experience.
For now the best thing we came up with is debugging on Android Simulator running atop of M2.. but for now we cannot get around UDP data exchange limitations as our app uses UDT which runs atop of UDP and we are unable to maintain connectivity.
haven't managed to run on iOS simulator as well due to some strange error throwing which I would repost soon.
@CodesInChaoss
I fully understand, that the Android debugging issue at hand is frustrating. The only thing I can assure is that we are busily working to stabilize it again. You may want to look at the bugreport for some updates.Switching Ndk versions does change the debug behavior, so there is likely an external dependency as well. 25.1.8937393 has brought me a small improvement over 25.2...., albeit not a solution. It'll be helpful to know, which SDK / Ndk and Qt Creator versions are running on the M2 you have mentioned.
As regards your iOS simulator issue, feel free to post a separate thread and tag me. I've got a working environment here. Maybe I can help troubleshooting.
Software Engineer
The Qt Company, Oslo -
@CodesInChaoss
I fully understand, that the Android debugging issue at hand is frustrating. The only thing I can assure is that we are busily working to stabilize it again. You may want to look at the bugreport for some updates.Switching Ndk versions does change the debug behavior, so there is likely an external dependency as well. 25.1.8937393 has brought me a small improvement over 25.2...., albeit not a solution. It'll be helpful to know, which SDK / Ndk and Qt Creator versions are running on the M2 you have mentioned.
As regards your iOS simulator issue, feel free to post a separate thread and tag me. I've got a working environment here. Maybe I can help troubleshooting.
@Axel-Spoerl Just tested a simple group box example.
QtCreator 12.0.2
Ubuntu 22.04
Qt 6.6.2
JDK-17
NDK 21 or 25
Device: Samsung tablet A-8 with Android 13Problem 1: break into disassembler binary with JDK 17. The test case runs fine without breakpoints.
Problem 2: JDK 11 is not supported anymore. If JDK 11 and Qt 5.15.2 are applied, NDK can not be set-up. For Android 13, JDK 11 is the right selection. -
@Axel-Spoerl Just tested a simple group box example.
QtCreator 12.0.2
Ubuntu 22.04
Qt 6.6.2
JDK-17
NDK 21 or 25
Device: Samsung tablet A-8 with Android 13Problem 1: break into disassembler binary with JDK 17. The test case runs fine without breakpoints.
Problem 2: JDK 11 is not supported anymore. If JDK 11 and Qt 5.15.2 are applied, NDK can not be set-up. For Android 13, JDK 11 is the right selection. -
@JoeCFD
Does that mean, things break with JDK 17?@Axel-Spoerl Nope. No break stop in the code, instead in disassembler.
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J JoeCFD referenced this topic on
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At https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator/actions/runs/8161009528 I have artifacts for a fix for the Android debugger issue.
It's one line of code that brings Qt Creator 13 to the level of Qt Creator 10.
In my case of MacBook Pro M1 I am getting breakpoints hits and no longer "Waiting for debugger".
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At https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator/actions/runs/8161009528 I have artifacts for a fix for the Android debugger issue.
It's one line of code that brings Qt Creator 13 to the level of Qt Creator 10.
In my case of MacBook Pro M1 I am getting breakpoints hits and no longer "Waiting for debugger".
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@cristian-adam Good news. We have to use 13? No fix in 12?
@JoeCFD At https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Creator_Releases there is no 12.0.3 release planed.
But, you can backport the change, is just one liner. Just clone Qt Creator on GitHub, cherry-pick the change and push a release tag to your fork. You will get releases automatically.
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@JoeCFD At https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_Creator_Releases there is no 12.0.3 release planed.
But, you can backport the change, is just one liner. Just clone Qt Creator on GitHub, cherry-pick the change and push a release tag to your fork. You will get releases automatically.
https://download.qt.io/snapshots/qtcreator/13.0/13.0.0-rc1/78/ has the needed fixes for the working Android debugging.
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https://download.qt.io/snapshots/qtcreator/13.0/13.0.0-rc1/78/ has the needed fixes for the working Android debugging.
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@cristian-adam just downloaded it and had a try. The problem is still there.
Ubuntu 22.04
Qt 6.6.2
JDK-17
NDK 21 or 25@JoeCFD I just gave it a try on my MacBook Pro M1 with:
- Qt 6.6.1
- Android arm64-v8 emulator image
- Android SDK 33
- Android NDK 25
- OpenJDK-17
See the recording at qtcreator13-android33.mp4.
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@JoeCFD I just gave it a try on my MacBook Pro M1 with:
- Qt 6.6.1
- Android arm64-v8 emulator image
- Android SDK 33
- Android NDK 25
- OpenJDK-17
See the recording at qtcreator13-android33.mp4.
@JoeCFD
Note the following:- if you have legacy break points, remove them all.
- if you want to set a break point into
main(), add aQThread::sleep(1)on top. It has to be the first instruction in main. - if you set no break points at all, the debugger will still jump to the disassembler. It looks as if the bug was still present. If you hit "continue" many times (18 in my case), the debuggee will start normally.
Software Engineer
The Qt Company, Oslo -
@JoeCFD
Note the following:- if you have legacy break points, remove them all.
- if you want to set a break point into
main(), add aQThread::sleep(1)on top. It has to be the first instruction in main. - if you set no break points at all, the debugger will still jump to the disassembler. It looks as if the bug was still present. If you hit "continue" many times (18 in my case), the debuggee will start normally.
I have tested the "dice" Qt example and I was able to land into "disassembly" only the first time that the application was installed on the device.
If I click continue it will skip all the SIGSEGVS and would hit my breakpoints.
See the recording: qtcreator13-disassembly.
The Java exceptions are implemented with signals and it looks like the
lldb-serveris picking up and giving them further down the chain.Android Studio users also have this problem see Android Studio keeps pausing with SIGSEGV (signal SIGSEGV: invalid address (fault address: 0x0)) at random [240007217] - Issue Tracker (google.com)
I have tried telling the debugger to ignore the signal:
process handle SIGSEGV --pass true --stop false --notify truebut it didn't work.
This doesn't look like a Qt Creator bug.
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I have tested the "dice" Qt example and I was able to land into "disassembly" only the first time that the application was installed on the device.
If I click continue it will skip all the SIGSEGVS and would hit my breakpoints.
See the recording: qtcreator13-disassembly.
The Java exceptions are implemented with signals and it looks like the
lldb-serveris picking up and giving them further down the chain.Android Studio users also have this problem see Android Studio keeps pausing with SIGSEGV (signal SIGSEGV: invalid address (fault address: 0x0)) at random [240007217] - Issue Tracker (google.com)
I have tried telling the debugger to ignore the signal:
process handle SIGSEGV --pass true --stop false --notify truebut it didn't work.
This doesn't look like a Qt Creator bug.
As a workaround one can paste (plus Enter):
pro hand -p true -s false SIGSEGVIn the debugger console at the first assembly hit, and then all the rest are ignored!
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I had luck with using ADB over Wi-Fi, debugging with QtCreator works at least once with ADB over Wi-Fi, in Android Studio debugging worked for me over USB and Wi-Fi, at least for a hello world app
EDIT: I take it back
@esnosy said in Unable to debug Android App (Windows + Qt Creator 12 + LLDB):
EDIT: I take it back
Does that mean, you are still struggling?
