How can I do remote debugging in Xcode 4?

Question

Is there a way to do remote debugging in Xcode 4? The previous answers to this question were for Xcode 3 and Apple removed the specific debugging in Xcode guide that (I assume) covered remote debugging.

For kicks I've been doing this with lldb , but if there's a way with gdb that'd be great. So far, I've been able to start a debug server on the remote machine like so

/usr/bin/ssh -l ${REMOTE_USER} -f ${REMOTE_HOST} "/Developer/usr/bin/debugserver localhost:12345"

And I can then manually log in with lldb from the Terminal and debug away. What I'd like to be able to do is at the very least start a bare lldb session within Xcode and then manually to process connect connect://hostname:port .

Answer 1

Xcode 4 doesn't currently support remote Mac debugging. Even if you were able to hack Xcode to talk to a remote debugserver, there's no guarantee that interaction with it would be fully or properly handled by the IDE or the remote debugserver.