Debugging with cdb
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Hello everyone,
I've setup win7 + msvs 2010 ultimate + windows SDK + windows DDK (to get cdb.exe) + Qt 4.8.4 + QtCreator 2.6.1 (MSVS). I've set up the toolchain and pointed the creator to cdb.
The problem is that the is no user-friendly information in watch window for internal Qt's types. As to debug helpers: they are enabled and IDE configuration dialog says "not needed" for QML observer, QML debugger and GDB helper, which I suspect to be reasonable.
So is it possible to have nice view of Qt's types?
[moved to tools, koahnig]
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Well, by now QString is shown ok, but, say, QDir is not. Is it ok?
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Are you using a debug build of Qt? Release builds hide quite a bit of internal structure which makes it impossible to watch datatypes in the debugger (basically all containing a d-pointer).
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Would updating GDB help to get more information out from Qt types? According this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4720591/how-do-i-make-qt-creators-debugger-show-the-contents-of-c-vectors-in-os-x
I tried it out, but when starting debuggin I get error from gdb: GDB: Failed to set controlling terminal: Operation not supported on socket\n
Any ideas what's wrong?
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You can safely ignore that message. Gdb does not like something about the way it is interacted with. The same happens in many other IDE that embed gdb.