4. Source Paths Mapping does not work in Ubuntu (works in Windows)

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Source Paths Mapping does not work in Ubuntu (works in Windows)


  • Summary: with Qt Creator, I can debug Qt code in Windows, not in Ubuntu.

    My Windows environment:

    • Windows 10 (64-bit)
    • Qt 5.6.3
    • Qt Creator 4.8.1
    • Visual Studio 2015, Update 3

    My Ubuntu environment:

    • Ubuntu 18.04 (64-bit)
    • Qt 5.6.3
    • Qt Creator 4.8.1
    • gcc 7.3.0

    This is how I installed Qt in Windows:

    • dowload qt-unified-windows-x86-3.0.6-online.exe from https://www.qt.io/download
    • execute qt-unified-windows-x86-3.0.6-online.exe
      • installation folder => C:\Qt
      • selected components:
        • Qt 5.6.3
          • msvc2015 64-bit
          • Source Components
            • Qt Source Package
        • Tools
          • Qt Creator 4.8.1 CDB Debugger Support

    This is how I installed Qt in Ubuntu:

    • dowload qt-unified-linux-x64-3.0.6-online.run from https://www.qt.io/download
    • execute qt-unified-linux-x64-3.0.6-online.run from a terminal
      • installation folder => /home/dave/Qt
      • selected components: same as in Windows, except:
        • msvc2015 64-bit => Desktop gcc 64-bit
        • no "Qt Creator 4.8.1 CDB Debugger Support" available
    • execute these commands in a terminal (as per wiki.qt.io/Install_Qt_5_on_Ubuntu):
      $ sudo apt-get install libfontconfig1
      $ sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev
      $ sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev -y

    This is how I configured Qt Creator's source mapping in Windows:

    • Tools -> Options... -> Debugger -> General -> Add Qt sources... -> C:\Qt\5.6.3\Src
    • at this point, "Source Paths Mapping" in the "Debugger" dialog shows the following lines:
      Source path				Target path
  C:/work/build/qt5_workdir/w/s		C:\Qt\5.6.3\Src
  Q:/qt5_workdir/w/s			C:\Qt\5.6.3\Src
  c:/Users/qt/work/install		C:\Qt\5.6.3\Src
  c:/users/qt/work/qt			C:\Qt\5.6.3\Src

    This is how I configured Qt Creator's source mapping in Ubuntu:

    • Tools -> Options... -> Debugger -> General -> Add Qt sources... -> /home/dave/Qt/5.6.3/Src
    • at this point, "Source Paths Mapping" in the "Debugger" dialog shows the following lines:
      Source path			Target path
  /home/qt/work/qt		/home/dave/Qt/5.6.3/Src

    When I try to Step Into a Qt function call in Ubuntu, execution jumps over the Qt call, as if I had selected Step Over. When I do the same in Windows, the debugger takes me into the Qt function, as it should.

    The only Qt code I can debug in Ubuntu is Qt code defined in headers.

    I do use Debug builds in both Windows and Ubuntu.

    Any idea?

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    @dave2 said in Source Paths Mapping does not work in Ubuntu (works in Windows):

    /home/qt/work/qt /home/dave/Qt/5.6.3/Src

    is it really /home/qt? If so why? Does the user "dave" has read access to /home/qt?

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  • When I add /home/dave/Qt/5.6.3/Src as the Target path (with Tools -> Options... -> Debugger -> General -> Add Qt sources...), the Source path is automatically set to /home/qt/work/qt. And no, /home/qt/work/qt does not exist on my Ubuntu machine.

    Similarly, none of the four directories which were automatically added as Source path when I added C:\Qt\5.6.3\Src as the Target path (that is: C:/work/build/qt5_workdir/w/s, Q:/qt5_workdir/w/s, c:/Users/qt/work/install and c:/users/qt/work/qt) exists on my Windows machine.

    I suppose that these source paths are directories in which the Qt versions I installed were built. The debugger then maps those directories to the directory where I have installed Qt. The mapping works in Windows, not in Ubuntu.

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