[erlang-questions] Erlang/OTP debugger on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard crashes regularly

[James Churchman]

I am using r13 and the debugger is just as unstable. Not only that its a horrid piece of software even if it did work correctly!!

I can 100 % vouch for ErlIDE, it works great on os x,is simple to setup and takes a instant to add breakpoints. You can get the most up-to-date version by adding http://erlide.org/update_nightly to the "add new software" menu option. I dont like Eclipse one bit for actual code editing, bit big and bloated, so i use TextMate with a number of keyboard shortcuts to erlc to compile source & check for errors and to do a "jump to definition in project" and then ErlIDE to do debugging. This setup works perfectly for me


James




On 12 Nov 2010, at 07:41, Dan Gudmundsson wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Alain O'Dea <alain.odea@REDACTED> wrote:
>> I have installed OTP R14B using http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/.  It
>> installs 64-bit ERTS and applications, but it doesn't have wxErlang support
>> because wxMac 2.8 does not build in 64-bit.
>> 
> 
> The wxWidgets team is working on that for 3.0.
> 
>> When I use the debugger it launches a Wish application that appears to use
>> native OS X widgets.  However, the debugger is extremely unstable in this
>> environment.  It worked much better in the X11 wish in 10.5 and earlier.  I
>> can rarely make it through a debugging session without the Wish application
>> freezing.
>> 
>> I have successfully restarted debugger by restarting the whole node, but it
>> rapidly crashes again.  I have also managed to force the monitor application
>> to restart with exit(im(), 'EXIT').  It seems that it doesn't notice that
>> wish has crashed.
>> 
> 
> GS uses the wish from the path, if you put X11 variant first in path
> that should work.
> 
>> Is there a reliable way to debug Erlang applications on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow
>> Leopard?
>> 
>> I am in the process of building a 32-bit OTP dev linked against a 32-bit
>> wxWidgets 2.8.11.  Hopefully this will work, but I still wonder if ErlIDE
>> would serve me better for this use case.
>> 
> 
> 2.8.11 is needed on Snow leopard, so it's a good choice, but wx on the mac is
> still the least tested variant..
> 
> If ErlIDE is working for you, it might be a good choice.
> 
>> IMHO, wxErlang should be a service provided by a C node rather than a
>> linked-in driver.  To the best of my knowledge that would make 32/64-bit a
>> non-issue.  This would be similar to the WebKit plug-in solution which
>> allows 32-bit plug-ins (like Flash) in a 64-bit browser.
> 
> Agree, that wouldn't bring down the node if it crashes either,
> it is doable but I beleive there is a large time investment before
> that happens,
> which I don't have time to do.
> But that would be great for linux and windows as well.
> 
> /Dan
> 
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