Declarative Debug hangs in Windows QNativeSocketEnginePrivate::nativeSelect

j1elo

Hi all,

I'm having a hard time trying to debug my application under Windows, due to the debug engine waiting forever on a socket. This happens at initialization, when the most complex stuff in my application hasn't even started.

The QDeclarativeDebugServer tries to start a socket connection, creating a Winsock socket and hanging in QNativeSocketEnginePrivate::nativeSelect() at line 1356:
@ret = select(0, &fds, 0, 0, timeout < 0 ? 0 : &tv);@

A totally basic Qt app is working fine, but my app does more complex stuff like threading, and OpenGL initialization; no socket stuff though. Debug works fine under Linux, where the main development is being done. I hope someone could give me a hint about where to look which could be the reason for that select() call to be blocking!

This is happening in a development machine with the following environment:

Windows 7 Service Pack 1. All Firewall and Antivirus disabled.
Compiler from Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 RC
CDB debugger from "Debugging Tools", included in "Windows SDK for Windows 8".
Qt Creator 2.8.1
Qt 4.8.x, tried versions: 4.8.4, 4.8.5, 4.8.6 (git)

j1elo

-Well, I found out that creating a breakpoint early in the main() does work, and then pressing F5 will make the program run correctly in debug mode.-

j1elo

The problem persists and I've followed the step by step run from the very beginning of the program, without noticing anything strange. If I'm not wrong, the socket is created by Qt with the Winsock WSASocket() function, and later a select() is done, blocking forever.

Does anyone know what might be the reason for that select() to hang?