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Lua Development Tools Debugger

Remote Debug

The Debugger of Lua Development Tools is based on the DBGP protocol.
The IDE contains a DBGP server. To connect to this server, and begin remote/attach debugging, you need to get our DBGP lua client.

DBGP Client

The DBGP Lua client is composed of two lua files (debugger.lua and debugintrospection.lua).
It runs on Unix-like OS and Windows (XP and later). It is written in Lua 5.1 and depends on lua-socket.
You can get Lua on http://www.lua.org/download.html and install lua-socket thanks to luarocks, or via your official OS repositories.

To use it, you must have these two files in your lua path.
To begin the connection, you must execute this lua code :

> local initconnection = require("debugger")
> initconnection(host, port, idekey)

or shortly

> require("debugger")(host, port, idekey)
  • host: the host name or the IP address of the DBGP server (thus, of your IDE).
    • if host is nil, the DBGP_IDEHOST environment variable is used.
    • if the environment variable is nil, the default value '127.0.0.1' is used.
  • port: the port of the DBGP server (must be configured in the IDE).
    • if port is nil, the DBGP_IDEPORT environment variable is used.
    • if the environment variable is nil, the default value '10000' is used.
  • idekey: a string which is used as session key (must be configured in the IDE).
    • if IDEKEY is nil, the DBGP_IDEKEY environment variable is used.
    • if the environment variable is nil, the default value 'luaidekey' is used.

So, To debug your application you could do :

lua -e "require('debugger')("idehost","ideport");" MyApp.lua 

DBGP Server

The DBGP Server is integrated in LDT.
In order to accept incoming debug sessions, you must create a new Remote Lua Application launch configuration, then launch it.

Go in Run/Debug Configurations....

LaunchConfiguration.png

  • Project : Set the LDT project in your workspace which includes the Lua source file(s) of the application you want to debug.
  • IdeKey : Default value is luaidekey, if you need to debug more than one application at the same time, you should change it to associate a launch configuration with only one application to debug.
  • Remote Source Mapping : This parameter is used to set the mapping between the source files used at runtime and the source files in the workspace of the IDE.

For example, if your run your application this way:

$cd /my/runtime/path
$lua -e "require('debugger')();" MyApp.lua 

You should define /my/runtime/path as working directory. (On Windows : you should use this notation /x:/myruntime/path)


Now you can start your debug session by clicking Debug. IDE will wait for an incoming connection from the debugger client, on the port you can see in the debug view.

DebugView.png

If needed, you can change the server port, in Window > Preferences > Dynamic Languages > Debug.

DebugUI.png

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