GDB errors on macOS Mojave

Question

Environment: Mac/Mojave and GDB 8.2.1 (via homebrew).

I worked through instructions https://forward-in-code.blogspot.com/2018/11/mojave-vs-gdb.html i.e.:

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Answer 1

I got gdb working on Mojave by:

a) getting the latest gdb source archive (at time of writing, ftp://sourceware.org/pub/gdb/snapshots/current/gdb-weekly-8.2.50.20190212.tar.xz) - amongst other things, it adds handling for recognizing executables on Mac.

b) build gdb. I got errors for variable shadowing in darwin-nat.c so I edited the file and rebuilt (diff https://gist.github.com/joubertnel/267ca0fff4eaad494cc19ec3ba7953ed).

c) follow steps in https://forward-in-code.blogspot.com/2018/11/mojave-vs-gdb.html

Voila.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, the accepted answer doesn't work for me.

For anyone in the same situation with me, I suggest using Visual Studio Code or Xcode to debug your C program instead.