NAME¶

lldb-mi - manual page for lldb-mi 6.0

DESCRIPTION¶

Description: The Machine Interface Driver (MI Driver) is a stand alone executable that either be used via a client i.e. Eclipse or directly from the command line. It processes MI commands, actions those commands using the internal debugger then forms MI response formatted text which is returned to the client.

Information: Current limitations. The MI Driver currently only handles remote target debugging. Local debugging has not been implemented. The MI Driver has been designed primarily to be used with Eclipse Juno and a custom plugin. The custom plugin is not necessary to operate the MI Driver.

MI driver usage:

lldb-mi [--longOption] [-s hortOption] [executeable]

[] = optional argument.

-h --help

Prints out usage information for the MI debugger. Exit the MI Driver immediately.

--version

Prints out GNU (gdb) version information. Exit the MI Driver immediately.

--versionLong

Prints out MI Driver version information. Exit the MI Driver immediately.

--interpreter

This option is kept for backward compatibility. This executable always run in MI mode

-s <filename> --source <filename>

Tells the debugger to read in and execute the lldb commands in the given file, after any file provided on the command line has been loaded.

--executable

Use the MI Driver in MI mode for the debugging the specified executable.

--log

Use this argument to tell the MI Driver to update it's log file 'lldb-mi-20180717190421.log'.

--log-dir

Use this argument to specify the directory the MI Driver will place the log file in, i.e --log-dir=/tmp.

executable (NOT IMPLEMENTED)

The file path to the executable i.e. '"C:\My Dev\foo.exe"'.

MI Driver Command: quit

Exit the MI Driver application.