LLDB does not appear to be reading my .lldbinit file on startup

Question

I have a file ~/.lldbinit with a single alias:

command alias pi print (int)

But when I run my app from Xcode, the alias does not work. How

Answer 1

I had a similar problem. It turned out, that I had a syntax error in my .lldbinit file which leads to lldb silently ignoring the file. You can try manually loading the file with

command source ~/.lldbinit

which will show syntax errors.