Debugging Odin using lldb (on Mac)

Prerequisites

Install lldb

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Command Line Debugging

Compile the odin program in debug mode.

odin build . -debug -out:debug.bin

Start lldb on command line with the generated binary.

lldb debug.bin

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Using VSCode

Setup

• Install the CodeLLDB VSCode extension from Extensions
• Create a .vscode folder at the root of your Odin project
• Copy launch.json and tasks.json provide below into it
• Goto Run (in menu) and click on Start Debugging

launch.json

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "type": "lldb",
            "request": "launch",
            "preLaunchTask": "Build",
            "name": "Debug",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/build/debug.bin",
            "args": [],
            "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}"
        }
    ]
}

tasks.json

{
    "version": "2.0.0",
    "command": "",
    "args": [],
    "tasks": [
        {
            "label": "clean_and_makedir",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "rm -rf build/ && mkdir -p build",
        },
        {
            "label": "build",
            "type": "shell",
            "command": "odin build . -debug -out:build/debug.bin",
            "group": "build"
        },
        {
            "label": "Build",
            "dependsOn": [
                "clean_and_makedir",
                "build"
            ]
        }
    ]
}