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vine'th
vine'th

Reputation: 5030

Analyzing a OSx UI Application in Valgrind

I am new to OSX development, I had a question regarding running valgrind 3.6.1 on mac osx : 10.6.8

I was trying to analyze a GUI application using valgrind; However, From a console the GUI application cannot be directly launched and can be launched as: open MyApplication.app So to check this application with valgrind, I executed, valgrind --trace-children=yes open MyApplication.app but still I couldn't get valgrind to analyze the application. (Could get the logs only for the open command) I am new to Mac OSx and may be missing something obvious, could somebody pls point out how we can analyze a UI application in valgrind on Mac? The MyApplication.app is shown as a executable when seen from Mac's finder. Thanks. (Posting it here since I am yet to get a response on the mailing list)

Upvotes: 1

Views: 934

Answers (1)

vine'th
vine'th

Reputation: 5030

Found the solution, we can analyze the application as follows: valgrind MyApplication.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApplication

MyApplication.app is basically a folder, which contains the executable and other resources.

Upvotes: 3

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