Re: Debugging a PHP Extension via GDB

On 22.04.2010, at 17:51, Sebastian Kurfürst wrote: > Hello everybody, > > [I hope this is the right list for this question, if not, it'd be great > if you could point me to the right direction]. > > I'm currently developing a PHP Extension which is built as dynamic > library, and not directly into PHP core. I'm trying to figure out how to > set break-points inside the extension with GDB, so debugging is easier. > > So far, I started gdb with "gdb /my/path/to/php" (which has debug > symbols enabled); and then tried to set a breakpoint into my extension via: > > break /path/to/php/extension/objectmonitor/objectmonitor.c:80 > > GDB then asks: > > No source file named /path/to/php/extension/objectmonitor/objectmonitor.c. > Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n]) y > > When I run php with a script via "run index.php", the system does not > stop at the set break-point. > > Do you have any hints how to make this work? This really would help me > tremendously. Do you use debug-build of PHP? There won't be symbols in "regular" build