Eclipse C/C++ lldb debugger setup macOS Catalina - cmake

Question

I've been using Eclipse for a while now for java development and it is seamless. I considered using eclipse for C development also. I installed C/C++ IDE CDT 9.9 addon from the marketplace. I now can create a Makefile project and develop code. But, I'm not able to debug code. After some research, I understood that the native debugger CDT is integrated with, GDB is no longer shipped with macOS. So, at this point, I understood that I have two solutions:
Install GDB and everything works normally.
Install LLDB addon for Eclipse available at the marketplace and everything works normally.
I went on installing LLDB addon for Eclipse and when tried to debug, it showed me:
I checked it in the terminal and I found out that lldb is available and lldb-mi is not available. I googled it and found lldb-mi. To install lldb-mi as shown on the Github page, I needed to install CMake. When I try to generate build files for lldb-mi using CMake, it showed me:
After seeing this message, I thought I may need to install LLVM. I googled and found two ways:
Install from Homebrew
Compile and build from source code and install from it
I chose to go and compile the source code and install it. I downloaded llvm-9.0.0.src and generated build as instructed here. It took almost 2 hours and gave this error:
Now, as I understand it, I just generated build files(Makefiles) and compiled the LLVM source code. It's 19GB in size now. Should I go ahead and install it? or have I misinterpreted anything and did anything wrong?
As #Tsyvarev pointed out, using sudo, llvm got installed successfully. Now, lldb-mi needs to be installed. When I go back and cmake ., it's showing me this error:
Karthiks-MacBook-Pro:lldb-mi-master karthik$ sudo cmake .
-- Found LLVM 9.0.0
-- Using LLVMConfig.cmake in: /usr/local/lib/cmake/llvm
-- Building with -fPIC
CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND.
Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files:
lib_lldb
linked by target "lldb-mi" in directory /Users/karthik/Downloads/lldb-mi-master/src
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also "/Users/karthik/Downloads/lldb-mi-master/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log".
As #squareskittles pointed, I understood that lldb-mi requires lib_lldb for cmake to generate build files. I did:
$git clone https://github.com/lldb-tools/lldb-mi
$cd lldb-mi
$mkdir build
$cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=path/to/llvm/root/tree -S . -B build/
CMake should generate all the build files into lldb-mi/build/. It is successful.
$cd build
$make
make should compile the code. It produced:
Karthiks-MacBook-Pro:lldb-mi karthik$ cd build
Karthiks-MacBook-Pro:build karthik$ make
[ 1%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/lldb-mi.dir/MICmdArgValListBase.cpp.o
In file included from /Users/karthik/buildspace/lldb-mi/src/MICmdArgValListBase.cpp:10:
/Users/karthik/buildspace/lldb-mi/src/MICmdArgValListBase.h:40:69: error: a space is required between consecutive right
angle brackets (use '> >')
: public CMICmdArgValBaseTemplate<std::vector<CMICmdArgValBase *>> {
^~
> >
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/lldb-mi.dir/MICmdArgValListBase.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [src/CMakeFiles/lldb-mi.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
Karthiks-MacBook-Pro:build karthik$
I put space between those > >, but there are still a lot of errors in the code.
I presume there are errors in the lldb-mi repository itself.
Can anyone tell me what I should be doing now?
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

The lldb-mi not longer present from Xcode 11.x, but lldb and LLDB.Framework already included in the Xcode.
Use the lldb-mi that comes bundled with previous versions of XCode( 10.x) , the location is ‘Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/lldb-mi’, copy it to the same location of current version XCode.
And, in Eclipse, change the lldb command location.
Fine!