M1/M2 C Debugging with Clang, CodeLLDB and VSCode

README.md

• Install CodeLLDB in VSCode
• Create launch.json with code below
• Adapt makefile to include the debug symbols

ref. CodeLLDB doco https://github.com/vadimcn/codelldb/blob/master/MANUAL.md

launch.json

{
    "version": "0.2.0",
    "configurations": [
        {
            "name": "CodeLLDB",
            "type": "lldb",
            "request": "launch",
            "program": "${workspaceFolder}/<binary>",
            "args": [
            ],
        }
    ]
}

makefile

COMPILER = clang
SOURCE_LIBS = -Ilib/ -Llib/
INCLUDES = -include **.h # NOTE not used below as it compiles the *.h files as well and generates multiple outputs
# OSX_OPT = -framework CoreVideo -framework IOKit -framework Cocoa -framework OpenGL
WARNINGS = -Wall
DEBUG_BUILD = -g -v -o "binary" -std=c99
LEAKS_BUILD  = -v -o "binary" -std=c99 -fsanitize=address 
RELEASE_BUILD = -o "binary-release" -std=c99 # -O1 O2 remove the hex map?
CFILES = **.c

# for debug -fsanitize=address
export ASAN_OPTIONS := allocator_may_return_null=1

build_osx:
	$(COMPILER) $(CFILES) $(SOURCE_LIBS) $(WARNINGS) $(DEBUG_BUILD)
	./binary

leaks:
	$(COMPILER) $(CFILES) $(SOURCE_LIBS) $(WARNINGS) $(LEAKS_BUILD) 
	./binary

clean:
	rm -rf binary.*
	rm binary-*

release:
	$(COMPILER) $(CFILES) $(SOURCE_LIBS) $(WARNINGS) $(RELEASE_BUILD)