[SailfishDevel] Debugging external libraries

[Andrey Kozhevnikov]

imho you need to install it to phone and debug contacts on device, not 
emulator?

15.03.2015 16:47, Dmitriy Purgin пишет:
> Hi,
>
> I'm struggling the whole day with this problem. Is there a way to 
> debug a shared library not included to a project? In particular I'd 
> like to see what's happening in nemomobile-qml-plugin-contacts-qt5.
>
> I have the following sample code being executed in Sailfish Emulator:
>
> import org.nemomobile.contacts 1.0
>
> // ...
>
> PeopleModel {
>     id: people
> }
>
> // ...
>
> var p = people.personByPhoneNumber('somephonenumber');
>
> I'm putting a break point on people.personByPhoneNumber() call and try 
> to step in, and it doesn't work.
>
> Prior to trying to step into the library code I've installed both 
> nemomobile-qml-plugin-contacts-qt5-debuginfo and 
> nemomobile-qml-plugin-contacts-qt5-debugsource to i486 target using Qt 
> Creator's SailfishOS tab. After that stepping in didn't work. Then I 
> pushed the 'sync' button  a couple of times to make sure it worked but 
> it didn't.
>
> Then I've logged into the build machine and installed these packages 
> using zypper. Pushed the 'sync' button in Qt Creator but stepping in 
> still didn't work. Interesting thing is though that the packages were 
> installed as if there were no packages installed using Qt Creator.
>
> I've looked into gdb output and saw that it sets substitute-path
>
> SailfishOS/mersdk/targets/SailfishOS-i486/usr/src for /usr/src. I 
> didn't have anything in 
> SailfishOS/mersdk/targets/SailfishOS-i486/usr/src, in fact, I didn't 
> have the src directory at all. It seems like the packages I've 
> installed in the build machine were not synchonised with my host 
> machine. I've done it with scp transfer but stepping in still doesn't 
> work.
>
>
> Could anyone please give me some hints on debugging external libraries 
> or guide me to any resource explaining the process?
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Dmitriy Purgin
>
>
>
>
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