kconner / macOS Internals.md

Last active November 13, 2024 07:51

macOS Internals

Understand your Mac and iPhone more deeply by tracing the evolution of Mac OS X from prelease to Swift. John Siracusa delivers the details.

Starting Points

How to use this gist

You've got two main options:

mike-myers-tob / Working GDB on macOS 11.md

Last active November 11, 2024 19:42

Steps to get GDB actually working in April 2021 on macOS (Intel x86-64 only)

Debug with GDB on macOS 11

The big reason to do this is that LLDB has no ability to "follow-fork-mode child", in other words, a multi-process target that doesn't have a single-process mode (or, a bug that only manifests when in multi-process mode) is going to be difficult or impossible to debug, especially if you have to run the target over and over in order to make the bug manifest. If you have a repeatable bug, no big deal, break on the fork from the parent process and attach to the child in a second lldb instance. Otherwise, read on.

Install GDB

Don't make the mistake of thinking you can just brew install gdb. Currently this is version 10.2 and it's mostly broken, with at least two annoying bugs as of April 29th 2021, but the big one is https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24069

$ xcode-select install  # install the XCode command-line tools

PollyP / intel_pintools_vs2019.md

Last active December 19, 2023 14:52

Building and Running Intel Pintools with VS 2019 on Windows 10

Building Intel pintools with Visual Studio 2019 on Windows 10

Setting up the Intel pin build environment

I started with a Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation VM, version 1809, from here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ Then I installed the needed tools:

Install Visual Studio Community 2019 Edition from https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/, version 16.4.2. Make sure to install the Desktop development for C++ workload.

mbinna / effective_modern_cmake.md

Last active November 13, 2024 23:24

Effective Modern CMake

Getting Started

For a brief user-level introduction to CMake, watch C++ Weekly, Episode 78, Intro to CMake by Jason Turner. LLVM’s CMake Primer provides a good high-level introduction to the CMake syntax. Go read it now.

After that, watch Mathieu Ropert’s CppCon 2017 talk Using Modern CMake Patterns to Enforce a Good Modular Design (slides). It provides a thorough explanation of what modern CMake is and why it is so much better than “old school” CMake. The modular design ideas in this talk are based on the book [Large-Scale C++ Software Design](https://www.amazon.de/Large-Scale-Soft

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