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LIJI

Reputation: 141

Remotely launching a process with LLDB

I'm trying to remotely launch and debug a new process with lldb without much success.

Attaching to an already launched process works well by running these commands:

process connect <url>
process attach -P gdb-remote --pid <pid>

But if I want debugserver to launch the executable by itself I'm running into troubles. Especially, I have no clue what arguments should I pass to target create.

According to this page LLDB "will transparently take care of [..] downloading the executable in order to be able to debug", yet target create seem to always require a local file. If I specify the remote file via -r I get either unable to open target file or remote --> local transfer without local path is not implemented yet errors. If I set the target to a local file (such as a local copy of the remote's loader executable) without using -r, then attempt to run process launch -p gdb-remote -s <remote path> LLDB will attempt running the local path on the remote machine and fail.

What are the correct commands I need to use in order to launch a remote process?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2111

Answers (1)

LIJI
LIJI

Reputation: 141

After contacting LLDB's mailing list Greg updated the documentation page, which now clearly explains what I have to do (Specifically I was missing the script lines, which appear to be the correct way to set the remote executable path)

Upvotes: 1

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